Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), John Kingsley Krugu says the Agency is taking steps to regulate and reduce noise pollution.

According to him, over the years it has been the typical Ghanaian attitude that noise pollution does not matter, but the EPA has taken the necessary steps to address that.

Mr Krugu noted that the EPA, in collaboration with other stakeholders, has developed regulations to guide the control of noise.

Speaking on the JoyNews AM show, Mr. Krugu said that “This is the first time that the EPA, working together with other stakeholders, has put together regulations, the protocol, the standard that would guide the regulation of noise pollution, and many of those works that have been done now. We are waiting for the bill because when you do new standards and regulations and at the same time you are making a new law, you then make references to the new law; you cannot make it to the old one because when you publish, then you have to do a new one all together.”

He stated that many of those works have been done, and they are in anticipation of the bill to become law, and all would be published to guide the public on how to deal with issues of noise.

The EPA director said that they currently receive complaints, and the EPA's technical team conducts assessments and provides guidance to ensure there is no noise pollution.

“That kind of work has been done, and I think going forward we would be in a better position to regulate the pollution of noise.”