Thursday, 5 June 2008

What will happen to our planet in the near future?

An article from “the Florentine” newspaper

Unfortunately everybody knows that pollution is endangering our planet , because lately the environmental conditions have worsened and the air is more and more polluted.
Mayor Domenici, Martini8 the regional president) and other local administrators have been officially indicted for failing to respect the environmental and to limit the air pollution. On May 6 Florence’s Public Prosecutors Giulio Monferini and Giuseppe Soresina laid charges against Florence and other provincial officials.
In the end 14 local officials have been accused, because none has respected the laws and the regular level of emission of pollution in the air. In fact they had to decrease the levels of the airborne pollutant PM10.
According to national and European law they must not exceed 50 micrometres a day for more than 35 days in any given year. Florence prosecutors believe that this condition was broken in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Domenici and Monferini say that they are satisfied about these data ,because even if the condition of Florence and the nearby area is not really good, they are doing their best to improve the situation.
A 2006 study conducted by Global Health Organization (Oms)revealed that if we reduce the smog level in the air of 40 percent, we can save 129 lives a year in Florence.

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