emissioni inquinanti

The European Union Parliament has definitively approved the agreement reached with the Member States on the revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).The votes in favor were 393, 173 against and 49 abstentions.The IED Directive is an essential rule to prevent pollution at source from approximately 50,000 European industrial plants.However, the process was rather troubled:the law has in fact had to overcome various obstacles that have weakened it from time to time.Until the end, for example, the most conservative groups attempted to further loosen the constraints on intensive farming, but in the end the majority of MEPs adopted the agreement negotiated last November which, however, provides already important concessions to the most impactful livestock farms.At present, the law extends measures on industrial emissions to pig farms with more than 350 heads of livestock, while companies that raise them extensively or organically are excluded.For poultry, the directive applies to...

Clothes resold, returned several times and often destined to remain in storage in the warehouses of large companies.All with journeys of thousands of kilometers per package and highly polluting:the world of online clothing sales, often characterized by free shipping and returns, therefore presents negligible costs for the buyer but enormous environmental damage due to waste of material and fuel.This is what emerges from new research led by the Investigative Unit of Greenpeace Italy.In just two months, the parcels analyzed crossed 13 European countries and China, traveling by truck, van, ship and plane.«Our investigation confirms the ease with which returns can be made in the fast fashion, almost always free for the customer, genres hidden and very relevant environmental impacts.While some European nations have already legislated to limit or avoid the use of destroying clothing items that are returned to the seller, the same cannot be said for the practice of facilitated returns,...

In the end it is decided, the EU has officially spared intensive farming more stringent measures regarding cutting polluting emissions.In particular, from the revision of directive on industrial emissions, cattle farms have been kept out, while some thresholds have changed for pig and poultry farms.The decision will be valid at least until 2026, the year in which the Commission will have to evaluate whether or not to review the decision.Despite numerous criticisms from the environmentalist world, the provisional political agreement was reached last Tuesday by the European Parliament and Council. Overall, the new rules should ensure better prevention and control of resulting pollution from emissions from large agro-industrial plants, as well as the reduction of waste production and the optimization of the use of raw materials and energy.In this regard, although the impact of cattle farming is now widely known, the choice still fell on confirming the position already expressed by the Eur...

Failure to comply with the recommended limits in the concentration of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) in the air has caused 253 thousand deaths in Europe in one year alone, this is admitted by thelatest health assessment presented by the European Environment Agency (EEA).The report explains that, although over the last 18 years the number of deaths attributable to fine particulate matter has decreased by 41%, the concentration of smog in the air is still the main environmental health risk for all those European citizens living in urban areas .Seen from Italy, the news sounds even more alarming, if possible, almost one death from PM 2.5 in five occurs in our country:according to estimates, exposure to fine particulate matter would have killed almost 47 thousand Italians.According to the EEA report, Italy is in second to last place for deaths caused by smog, preceded only by Poland. Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) refers to solid and liquid polluting particles suspended in the air with...