Two days later, under East City's advocacy and push, Central City passed the Coastal Area Environmental Protection Act without warning and simultaneously released a draft of new regulations for public comment on punishing environmental pollution.
In particular, it established entirely new standards for pollution and gas emissions from fuel-element vehicles.
This represented another step forward for the Federation's environmental protection efforts, while protecting the blue seas and skies of the Coastal Area, preventing ecological deterioration, and helping to slow the increasingly frequent occurrence of disasters.
At any rate, that was what the environmental experts on television said.
Yet amid overwhelming opposition, the Ministry of Justice unexpectedly took a rare step back this time and revised the regulations a second time—existing models would not be held accountable for past violations, but all newly manufactured models that failed to pass stringent environmental inspections would be barred from both sale and the road.
The environmental inspections for vehicles would be carried out by expert institutions designated by the Ministry of Justice.
The relevant regulations would take effect in three months.
By then, a brand-new technological barrier would rise from the ground.
At the same time, Yan Jian, who had emerged from secluded practice after two and a half days with bloodshot eyes and design blueprints clutched in his arms, let out a piercing shriek.
"Fuck your ****!!!!"
"I'm going to ** those ** in Central City..."
"*** my **, a bunch of **, ***!!!!"
Can't Afford Pineapple's voice nearly carried from Yacheng to Tide City.
In response, Ji Jue, who was drinking tea, reading the paper, slacking off, and taking the opportunity to study Elephant Sword Treatise, merely kept his legs crossed, unmoved.
"Don't mind it," he said. "Keep going."
He glanced at the words "household fuel-element sedan" on the draft for public