Cleaning of Sg Kim Kim over, says minister
Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin says 30 teams comprising Environment Department members and Chemistry Department personnel have been deployed to 30 schools around the affected area today to monitor air quality using gas detectors. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 17, 2019.
THE cleaning of 1.5km of Sg Kim Kim in Pasir Gudang, Johor, which began on Wednesday following the dumping of toxic chemical waste there, has been completed, said Yeo Bee Yin . The energy, technology, science, climate change and environment minister said, however, that monitoring would continue to see if anything more needs to be done.
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