City of Skopje supports its households to reduce air pollution
The City of Skopje said 4,282 households applied to buy inverter air conditioners with subsidies and hand over their wood stoves or boilers that use heating oil. They are entitled to as much as EUR 1,000 each within the scheme for improving air quality. Utilities in the North Macedonian capital have been collecting wood stoves […]
ArcelorMittal Zenica completes projects to reduce pollution from steel plant
Steel producer ArcelorMittal Zenica has completed two major investments, worth EUR 7.7 million, to reduce dust emissions. The projects will ensure the increase the environmental protection in the city of Zenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Investments will help reduce the pollution created by the steel plant, which made Zenica one of the cities with the […]
Excessive air pollution recorded today in Bor
The smelter of China’s Zijin halted operations today due to excessive air pollution as the city of Bor, which normally has poor air quality, was covered by smoke from a waste landfill fire. Smoke covered the city of Bor today, making it difficult to breathe, Ist Media reported. The local measuring station run by the […]
Protest held in Serbia’s Smederevo against pollution from China-owned steelworks
The inhabitants of Smederevo are worried about the dust coming from the Železara steel power plant and its transportation activities, which prompted a demonstration to urge the authorities to act against air and land pollution. Several hundred people have gathered in Smederevo, east from Serbia’s capital city Belgrade, demanding from the government to react to […]
Carbon prices jump in EU, taking industrial pollution costs to 14-year high
Expenses for greenhouse gas emissions at factories and energy producers briefly surged to a level unseen since 2016. As the EU tightens environmental regulations and polluters are suffering from rising carbon costs, green technologies are becoming more profitable. Uncertainty and the lockdown measures throughout the world to curb the spread of the coronavirus devastated the […]
Join EBRD webinar to rethink district energy systems in COVID-19 age
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is organizing a live session titled “Resilient, low carbon district energy in the age of COVID-19” on June 30. Following the success of the EBRD’s conference on district heating and cooling systems organized in Belgrade last December and the publication of the paper COVID-19: Challenges and opportunities in […]
Public consultation starts on study on TENT thermal power unit in Serbia
Elektroprivreda Srbije is seeking approval for the study on the assessment of the environmental impact of the formal legalization of TENT A. The Ministry of Environmental Protection of Serbia launched a public consultation about the document. EPS is planning to reconstruct blocks A1 and A2 in its TENT thermal power division, claiming pollution would then […]
5 ways lobbyists are using COVID-19 to weaken EU environmental laws
Are EU environmental laws and the European Green Deal really at stake because of the COVID-19 pandemic? Lobby groups in Brussels are doing their best to diminish them, Anton Lazarus, Communications Manager at European Environmental Bureau (EEB), says in his article and lists five examples of how corporate lobbyists asked for the suspension of crucial […]