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The 2015 Southeast Asian haze led to a Pollutant Standards Index of 353 in Tiong Bahru. Environmental issues in Singapore include air, water pollution, and deforestation. The government established the Singapore Green Plan in 1992 to help with environmental issues.
Diseases caused by pollution, lead to the chronic illness and deaths of about 8.4 million people each year. However, pollution receives a fraction of the interest from the global community. [1] This is in part because pollution causes so many diseases that it is often difficult to draw a straight line between cause and effect.
The 2010 Southeast Asian haze was an air pollution crisis which affected many Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore during the month of October 2010. [ 1 ] This occurred during the dry season in October when forest fires were being illegally set off by Indonesian smallholders residing in the districts of Dumai and ...
Singapore and Malaysia continuously monitor and report air pollution levels, using the Pollutant Standards Index and Air Pollution Index, respectively. ASEAN introduced a Transboundary Haze agreement in 2002 following the severe international impact of the 1997 haze . [ 43 ]
The PSI has been used in a number of countries including the United States and Singapore. Since 1999, the US EPA has replaced the Pollution Standards Index (PSI) with the Air Quality Index (AQI) to incorporate new PM 2.5 and ozone standards. Prior to 1 April 2014, Singapore published the PSI and the 1-hour PM 2.5 reading separately.
The Transboundary Haze Pollution Act of 2014 (THPA) is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that criminalizes conduct which causes or contributes to haze pollution in Singapore, and to provide for related matters such as deterrence. The law is designed specifically to allow legal in suing companies for environmental pollution.
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At 4pm on 14 September 2019, the 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) entered the "unhealthy" range of above 100 for the first time since 2016, [32] starting from 103 in western Singapore. The PSI steadily climbed up [ 33 ] with all parts of Singapore registering "unhealthy" PSI readings at 1am the next day, peaking at 124 from 5am to 8am in ...