BANGKOK: Thai officials on Friday(Oct 20) promised action to address a spike in air pollution that came before the normal peak of seasonal haze, but environmental activists accused authorities of hot air.
Bangkok ranked as the world's 10th most polluted city on Friday, according to the air quality monitoring firm IQAir.
However, environmental groups accused the government of ignoring a key contributor to the problem: industry. Thailand's government says the industrial sector accounts for just 4 per cent of the suffocating haze that regularly blankets parts of the country during the cooler winter months.But the recent spike in pollution, even before the peak of the burning season, shows the industrial sector's impact is likely much higher, said Panchom Saetang, the director of Ecological Alert and Recovery-Thailand.
Environmentalists are lobbying for the implementation of a law that would force factories to release emissions data.
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