The Instituteof Publicand EnvironmentalAffairs thusincluded the factory on itsChinaWater PollutionMap with the expectation thatUnilever provide an explanation.
The database is run by the independent research organization that Ma directs: the InstituteofPublicandEnvironmentalAffairs in Beijing, founded in 2006.
As I reported last August, the InstituteofPublicandEnvironmentalAffairs (IPE), a Beijing-based nonprofit organization, is using government information and enforcement data to track pollution across China.
Horrified by a spate of heavy-metal poisonings in several Chinese provinces, the Beijing-based researcher at the InstituteofPublicandEnvironmentalAffairs helped rally a group of NGOs that has reached out to major electronics companies operating in China.