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Environment Minister Tanczos Barna says much of the country is affected by drought at various stages. The Danube has reached its lowest level in 30 years. Under these conditions, the Government asks the population not to waste water. Also,…

Environment minister Tanczos Barna told an interview to Digi 24 that it is 'a constant fight against the mafias", the criminal groups revolving around the waste imports. The minister said that Romania lacks an organised system of selective…

Environment Ministry says that, in the past week, the concentrations of all pollutants monitored in Bucharest have stood way below the limit values. The PM10 concentration was close to the values registered on a mountaintop on Monday, the…

Environment minister Costel Alexe has announced in a press conference on Wednesday that he had found the largest operation of illegal logging in Maramures, at the Sighet forest guard, where 100,000 cubic metres of trees "have been razed to…

The national network and independent networks of monitoring the air quality in Bucharest have registered record excess of PM 2.5 and PM 10 pollution on the night of Sunday and on Monday morning. For the PM 2.5 pollution, a fine dust mixed…

Environment minister Costel Alexe has summoned on Monday the representatives of the three cities that have air quality issues and which under the European Commission's scrutiny or even pending a verdict by the EU'S Court of Justice. The…

Bucharest mayor Gabriela Firea has announced on Friday she will file a criminal complaint against Environment minister Costel Alexe for 'inducing panic amongs population' through his statement that poison is inhaled in the Capital and that…

Environment minister Costel Alexe had a cross talk with Bucharest mayor, Gabriela Firea on the pollution in Bucharest. After the minister reproached Firea the City Hall had taken no actions to improve the air quality in the Capital, the…

Environment, Waters and Forests Minister Costel Alexe said, on Thursday evening, that Romania considers banning log exports outside the European Union, warning that our country is losing money for every cubic meter of illegal logging.…

Environment Minister, Gratiela Gavrilescu, said on Tuesday that the draft for a new pollution tax will be completed by the end of this year, although initially the ministry should have presented it by mid-year, hotnews.ro reports. "I do…