The EU agrees to reduce emissions from intensive chicken and pig farming

The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union today reached a provisional agreement to set new standards to reduce polluting emissions from industry in the EU, including those generated by intensive poultry and pig farming and mining. "We are setting standards to address pollution at the source, while improving the presentation and monitoring of emissions," declared in a statement the third vice president of the Government of Spain and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, representing the Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU. The Industrial Emissions Directive is the main EU instrument to regulate the pollution of industrial and agro-industrial facilities with substances such as nitrogen oxides, ammonia, mercury, methane and carbon dioxide, which must obtain permits of the Member States, as long as they meet the required requirements. The provisional agreement, which will have to be formally validated by the Council and the plenary session ...