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