Reform and Analysis of the Division of Legal Responsibility between Enterprises and Third-Party Governance under Environmental Pollution

Table 1

Comparison between “major pollution crime” and “environmental pollution crime.”

	Charge	Range of pollutants	Lower threshold of conviction	Object expansion	Immediate standard
97 Criminal Law	Crime of major environmental pollution accident	“Radioactive other hazardous waste”	“Causing major environmental pollution, casualties, and serious consequences”	“Disposal to land and water”	“Major property losses or personal casualties”
Criminal Law Amendment VIII	Crime of environmental pollution	Replace “other hazardous wastes” with “other hazardous substances”	“Seriously polluting the environment”	Cancel the list of objects and replace it with “violation of national regulations”	Serious environmental pollution