S. Korean chemical firms suspected of manipulating fine dust emission data

South Korean chemical companies are being accused of colluding with air pollutant measurement firms,...manipulating data on fine dust emissions.According to the environment ministry on Wednesday,... 2-hundred-35 chemical factories in the Yeosu industrial complex requested four measurement agencies,.... to fabricate records on air pollutant emissions over the past four years. LG Chemical and Hanwha Chemical were included,...and for LG Chemical,... emissions of vinyl chloride were discharged at levels 1-hundred-73 times higher than the standard.The ministry has reported six firms to the police.... and plans to expand the investigation.