Milano

The text on which the European institutions have found an agreement contains an exemption designed specifically for the Po Valley and loudly requested by the Meloni government

The complaint presented in 2005 by Fedrighini, now a city councilor, convinced Brussels to open infringement proceedings against Italy:«In Milan we don't breathe healthy air and my complaint was the first to certify it»

What can individual citizens do when faced with such high levels of air pollution?We asked Alessandro Miani, president of the Italian Society of Environmental Medicine

The mayor of Milan disputes the findings of the Swiss company IQ Air:«Are we the third most polluted city in the world?They are not serious"

On Sunday 18 February the Swiss company IQAir published a report on air quality in various cities around the world, drawing up a classification of those in which it is most polluted, in which Milan appeared third behind only Chengdu in China and Lahore in Pakistan.The list caused quite a stir, quickly becoming one of the most debated topics of the moment;Mayor Beppe Sala, questioned by journalists, provided one answer annoyed and hasty on the issue, rhetorically asking her interviewers who conducted this type of analysis, to underline the unreliability of the data coming from private entities and invite you to trust official data.Indeed, it seems difficult to imagine that Milan could place itself on the podium of the cities with the worst air quality in the world, above very large centres like New Delhi;However, this does not mean that the ranking provided by IQAir provides an interesting point of view which is worth reflecting on, which places us before the evident problem of air poll...