30-11-2009 Greenpeace China: How Samsung and others break China's pollution rules

Excerpt from the GoodElectronics website:

Eighteen top multinational and Chinese corporations, including Motorola and Samsung Electronics, violated a new Chinese environmental regulation in its first year of enforcement, Greenpeace shows in a report published in October 2009. The report, entitled 'Silent Giants. An investigation into corporate environmental information disclosure in China' describes how companies, either part of the 2008 Fortune Global 500 or 2008 Fortune China 100 lists, have violated the Measures on Environmental Information Disclosure (for Trial Implementation). This regulation requires companies to publish their pollution information within 30 days of being reported by local environmental bureaus as breaking pollution standards.

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“It is shocking that these companies that are leaders in their respective industries did not even manage to obey the most basic environmental regulation in China,” said Tianjie Ma, Senior Campaigner for Greenpeace China.

“The public has a right to know about what these corporations are discharging in the rivers and lakes around their communities and what risks they face.”