How to solve the problem of group incidents easily caused by environmental petitions?

Currently, environmental petition work in various regions presents characteristics such as large volume, complexity, and susceptibility to mass incidents. When dealing with pollution disputes, environmental protection departments in various regions often adopt a model of government departments taking the lead, cooperating, and jointly managing to solve environmental petition problems.


Currently, environmental petition work in various regions presents characteristics such as large volume, complexity, and susceptibility to mass incidents. When dealing with pollution disputes, environmental protection departments in various regions often adopt a model of government departments taking the lead, cooperating, and jointly managing to solve environmental petition problems. This model has been proven to be fast and effective in practice. However, this government led petition processing model is sometimes suspected by petitioners of favoring enterprises, and the public may have resentment towards it. Some companies are also dissatisfied with the handling process. This makes it difficult to handle petitions and complaints, and the effectiveness of environmental petition work is not ideal.


In response to the severe situation of environmental complaints, some district and county environmental protection departments in Chongqing have fully integrated the "three systems" and adopted a linkage model between government departments and autonomous organizations to effectively resolve environmental disputes when handling environmental complaints. Their experience is as follows:


When handling environmental petitions, these districts and counties fully integrate the "three systems", namely the system of village (house) party branch secretaries receiving visits from the masses at fixed times and locations every week; The main members of the village committee are divided into different areas and there is a system of non repeated visits; The system of regularly providing feedback on the handling situation, fully utilizing the fundamental role of grassroots party organizations, and focusing on improving the level of education and service to the masses.

2014-10-11