Among all kinds of environmental pollutions, air pollution has beenthe most serious issue in the globe. Air pollution produces substances, which causes serious damage to the environment. It also poses serious threats and damages to the life, body, health, legal interests of human beings, the survival of social groups, as well as the foundation of the overall operation of society. Therefore, some scholars regard the behavior is "dangerous to the whole society", which is based on the concept of environmental risk assessment. When some specific acts have obviously violated the legal interest and caused risks to happen, the state can take corresponding penalty measures to prevent the violation from expanding. Such penalty means refer to the sanctions of environmental criminal law. Environmental criminal law refers to behavior that endanger the environment. Also, the environmental criminal law covered all the criminal penalties regarding harming the environment. It also includes the collective concept of all the elements of environmental crime. In the Environmental Criminal Law, there are criminal countermeasures to combat air pollution, including Article 190-1 of the Criminal Law and Article 51 of the AirPollution Control Law.
In order to reduce the emission of air pollutants, relevant criminal regulations are set. States would also regard this as one of the national policies. Therefore, there are several issues to be clarified in the legal perspective. Whether the regulation is complete will greatly influence the country's overall reduction in emissions. It is worth discussing in detail. This article intends to discuss related issues. In order to clearly define related legal disputes and improve the planning system, the article will ompare the criminal sanctions of air pollution emission regulated in both criminal law and administrative law. It is hoped that the emission of air pollutants can be effectively slowed down.
