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Tuscany joins the now extensive list of Italian regions contaminated by PFAS. To reveal it a series of samplings carried out independently by Greenpeace which confirm the alarm that had already been launched in 2013 by the National Research Council (CNR) and the Water Research Institute (IRSA).The analyzes conducted by the environmental organization found high concentrations of the contaminant in the region's waterways, especially downstream of the rivers, where the concentration was up to 20 times higher than upstream.«The picture of contamination that emerges from our analyzes is anything but reassuring.Some cases have been well documented for at least ten years, but the Tuscany Region has never seriously addressed the problem:in fact, there is no provision on industrial waste", commented Giuseppe Ungherese, head of the Greenpeace Pollution campaign who also underlined that it is needed as soon as possible start investigations on drinking water.Tuscany is the fourth Italia...

After having conducted an investigation that shed light on the presence of PFAS - poly and perfluoroalkyl substances - in the drinking water of dozens of municipalities throughout Piedmont, in recent days the Greenpeace Italia association has officially presented four complaints to the Turin Prosecutor's Office, Ivrea, Alessandria and Novara, asking the judiciary to take "all the necessary precautionary measures" in order to "prevent the continued administration of waters containing PFAS”.In the complaint, Greenpeace urged the magistrates to ascertain whether, considering the state of permanent pollution of the areas in question, "the conditions exist to hypothesize crimes of environmental or unnamed disaster", as well as "omission of official acts resulting in failure to comply with the legislation on access to documents".Despite the insight that emerged from the Greenpeace investigation, in recent days the Health Councilor Luigi Icardi has tri...

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...

While COP28 is underway in Dubai, some climate activists have opened two banners on the sides of the building with the words Today's emissions, tomorrow's deaths

The topic will also arrive at Cop28 in Dubai next week, where negotiations on the "Loss and Damage" fund will resume