BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) and the Ministry of Supervision will supervise probes into four major environmental pollution cases this year, the two agencies announced here Monday.

    The four cases are:

    The authorities of districts and counties under the jurisdiction of Xinzhou City in north China's Shanxi Province promulgated local policies and regulations which voilate China's environmental laws and regulations;

    Manganese pollution in the border area between the provinces of Guizhou and Hunan and Chongqing Municipality;

    The environmental damage caused by the Baimei Paper Enterprise in Yuzhong County in northwest China's Gansu Province; and

    Hailin Xueyuan Distillery recently released pollutants to the Mudanjiang River in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Enditem