#pollution

As a starting measure, state govt has implemented a campaign prohibiting the use of the items every Saturday. 

Minister says it will holistically address plastic waste polluting seas and beaches.

Judge Wan Mohd Norisham toured the tyre processing factory with several interested parties in the case.

Four accused appear in court for chemical dumping case.

COMMENT | As long as we ourselves did not physically do the dumping, then we are apparently absolved of any responsibility.

COMMENT | The haze has very real economic implications for both the Malaysian government and its citizens.

Malaysia is preparing a cabinet paper on the need to create a Transboundary Pollution Act.

The department says its measurements are made using methods based on international standards.

A further 26 stations, mainly in Sarawak and southern Peninsular Malaysia recorded unhealthy API readings.

Yesterday, he ordered all schools in Tangkak, Muar and Pontian to close today.

Forest fires don't happen overnight, so why are the authorities only taking action now?

The minister says that Malaysia is also ready to provide assistance to Indonesia to fight the forest fires.

As at 9am, 20 other areas also record unhealthy air pollution index readings.

The city has been on the frontline of a war on pollution launched in 2014.

Indonesia will only take complaints on the haze seriously if it suffers economically, says James Masing.

Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin met with Indonesian officials to raise Malaysia's concern.

Data from ASMC shows 1,307 hotspots in Sumatra and Kalimantan, compared to 21 hotspots in Malaysia.

Landowners and those in the agriculture sector should know better about open burning.

The highest reading of 204 was recorded in Kuching as at 9am.