Air pollution

Brussels City Council decided that in days of excessive air pollution urban transport and bicycle rentals will be free, local media reported, quoted by BTA.

Veliko Tarnovo will be installed 1,500 filter for clean air. The facilities will be placed on the chimneys of the combustion plants, as experts say their installation will lead to a drastic reduction in particulate matter and air emissions.

The project is made by the municipality in the old capital.

The European Union's top court on Thursday said Poland had failed to uphold air quality standards, part of a wider EU battle to reduce deaths from airborne pollution which it estimates kills 400,000 people every year, Reuters reports. 

Germany's highest administrative court in Leipzig will on Thursday decide the fate of 15 million diesel vehicles in the country when it rules on whether cities in Europe's largest car market can ban heavily polluting cars, reported Reuters.

By the end of 2019, sensors for measuring air quality will be installed in Sofia, as well as filters on 20 chimneys of solid and liquid fuel installations. The project is worth 800,000 euros and is part of a pilot technology that will be introduced in several Balkan countries.

There is no doubt that about 40% of air pollution is due to domestic heating and 60% to cars, Sofia Metropolitan Mayor Yordanka Fandakova announced in Nova TV's studio of "Hello, Bulgaria".

Following the high level of air pollution recorded in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, in the winter  months, BIRN Kosovo's TV show Jeta ne Kosove on Thursday summarise ten years of reporting on this problem and concluded that the damage to people's health was the biggest cost that citizens are paying.  

Bucharest, Feb 2 /Agerpres/ - Romania will allocate this year 13 million lei for the Program for the development and optimization of the National Air Quality Monitoring Network, and 20 million lei to reduce the impact of pollution on the atmosphere, water and soil, including air quality monitoring, reads the substantiation note for the budget blueprint of the Environmental Fund and the Environm

An increase in the levels of fine particulate matter in air is expected. Given the norm of 50 mg per cu m, the expected increase will be in the range from 51 to 100 mg per cu m, the municipality of Sofia said.

Air pollution in the western province of Bursa has reached alarming levels, posing risks to human health, the latest data from the Environment and Urbanization Ministry’s Air Quality Index has shown.