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    Industry & Health

    30 April 2021

    One year of European Commission inaction on the illegal Turów coal mine

    Polish utility PGE will have operated its sprawling Turów lignite mine illegally for one year this coming Saturday 1 May, despite the European Commission confirming that […]
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    5 May 2021

    Rapid reaction: No viable blueprint for a green transition in Commission’s Industrial Strategy

    The European Commission has released its revised Industrial Strategy. Despite fine words about the importance of the EU “giving back more than it extracts”, the strategy […]
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    6 May 2021

    German government and Green regions are letting the lignite industry decide on air pollution standards for power plants

    On Friday 7 May the German Bundesrat may vote a dangerous compromise allowing business as usual pollution levels for German coal and lignite power plants. The […]
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    21 May 2021

    European Court of Justice orders halt to operations at controversial Polish mine

    LUXEMBOURG, 21 May 2021 – The European Court of Justice has ruled that mining at Poland’s sprawling Turów coal mine must cease while the court processes […]
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    9 June 2021

    European Commission sides with citizens in landmark cross-border anti-coal court case

    The European Commission will join the Czech Republic in the legal dispute against Poland concerning the controversial Turów mine [1], which is depleting water resources and […]
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    17 June 2021

    ‘Green Deal Commission’ needs to walk the ‘zero pollution’ talk

    Air pollution prevention from chemical industries may enter into a deregulation mayhem under the EU Commission proposal for WGC BREF. Polluters-complacent countries would be rewarded with […]
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    6 July 2021

    New EU environmental standards for chemical industry fall short of Green Deal ambition

    Progress towards air quality goals will be witnessed on new EU standards to prevent emissions from chemical installations (WGC BREF). However, the vague methodology set to […]
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    17 August 2021

    Four years of unnecessary pollution: EU governments fail to curb emissions from most toxic plants

    PRESS BRIEFING Most lignite plants in the EU have waited until the very last minute to implement pollution-control technologies that were available and economically viable already […]
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    1 April 2022

    New EU laws on industrial pollution not fit for zero pollution ambition

    The proposal for the review of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) reveals significant steps forward. Yet the Commission jeopardises the progress achieved by leaving significant loopholes […]
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    14 November 2022

    EPP draft report waters down key industrial pollution prevention rules

    Today’s released report on the revision of EU industrial pollution laws by Member of the European Parliament Radan Kanev, from the conservative EPP group, is another […]
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    15 March 2023

    Member States set to undermine pollution prevention rules, green NGOs warn

    Environmental NGOs warn that the EU Council Presidency proposal for a general approach on the revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) ignores the urgency of […]
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    12 April 2023

    Lowest pollution limits improve public health and save billions in taxpayer money, says new analysis 

    Adjusting Europe’s most polluting industry regulated by the Industrial Emissions Directive to the lowest achievable pollution limits will not only improve environmental protection but also save up […]
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