Abstract:

Information disclosure is the first step of marine pollution emergency treatment. Timely and comprehensive disclosure
of real environmental information is not only the guarantee for the public to safeguard their interests of health and property
against marine pollution incidents and actively participation in accident treatment，but also a necessary condition for the public
to supervise the enterprise and relevant government departments handling the incident. The Penglai 19-3 oil spill incident had
serious impacts on the marine ecology and fishery production in Bohai Sea. The primary reason is that the relevant responsibility
subjects failed to completely perform their information disclosure obligations so as to delay the optimal timing in handling the
incident. The Penglai 19-3 oil spill incident has exposed many problems in China’s marine pollution emergencies in information
disclosure: buck-passing between publicity subjects，delaying information disclosure，disclosure of unreal information content
and negative mainstream media responses. In order to improve China’s environmental information disclosure system，we must
promote information disclosure legislation，establish emergency response platform，establish publicity mode of environmental
information protocols between enterprises and media，and improve the responsibility mechanism of environmental information
disclosure.