THE proposed Environmental Protection Act (EPA) will address cross-jurisdictional issues and make clear grey areas between federal and state authorities that had inevitably “allowed” irreversible damage to the environment. The ministry will also under the law be empowered to force illegal factories to relocate or shut down. “Remember the Semenyih incident where the (Semenyih river) was polluted by illegal factories... “Under the proposed law, our enforcers will have the power to compel such factories to close down or move. The Sungai Semenyih Water treatment plant was forced to shut down twice last year following contamination caused by pollutants released from factories in the Semenyih hi-tech industrial area.

Source: New Strait Times November 18, 2017 21:45 UTC