The Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau has moved up the deadline for a series of anti-pollution goals from the end of the year to September.

According to the bureau, Shanghai will eliminate the remaining 1,939 coal-consuming boilers and furnaces in the city by the deadline. All yellow-label, heavily polluting vehicles will be taken off the roads before the end of September, it added.

With the introduction of the new environmental protection law this year, the bureau reported a total of 881 violations in the first five months, up 45 percent compared to last year. The bureau added it had collected total fines of 50.15 million yuan (US$8.08 million) in the period. A little more than 100 million yuan in fines had been collected for all of 2014.

Shanghai Five Continents Dyeing Company was fined 480,000 yuan because it used heavily polluting energy resources and failed to take corrective action after being warned.

The company was fined 40,000 yuan per day, which was multiplied by 12 for the number of days it had failed to take corrective action.

The daily fine was introduced as a new punishment in the law that took effect this year.

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