pollution

Nitrogen dioxide emissions have recently decreased in Romania, reveals an analysis of the evolution of this pollutant conducted by the Romanian company Terrasigna using satellite data. The decrease in NO2 pollution observed in Romania may…

The European Commission has urged Romania today to close, seal and ecologically restore 48 illegal landfills and to comply with the judgement of the Court of Justice of the EU of 18 October 2018. Under the Waste Framework Directive ,…

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled on Thursday that Romania had not met its obligations to improve the air quality, arguing that our country has systematically violated the pollution norms in Bucharest. The ruling…

The air monitoring devices have registered exceedance by 500% for the pollution with PM10 and PM2,5 in Bucharest on Wednesday morning. The high levels of pollution have been reported particularly in the northwestern Capital. Many…

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…

Judges have decided to place under preventive arrest the owner of a sanitation company, accused of massively polluting the Arges River near Bucharest, in Ilfov and Giurgiu counties, where hundreds of tons of waste picked up from the…

The Head of the Bucharest Environment Guard, Viorel Glăman,  has been dismissed in the scandal related to the record pollution in the Capital city. The chief of the National Environment Guard, Marioara Gătej has told Hotnews.ro that Glăman…

Police are conducting nine searches in a file targeting the activity of two companies and of several physical persons who would have collected, transported, dumped and buried waste in unauthorized locations, thus prompting significant…

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…

Bucharest general mayor Gabriela Firea has announced on Tuesday she is giving up the Oxigen tax, as well as the downtown access restrictions following a Fcaebook poll where she asked citizens if they agree with the introduction of the…