The EU begins the challenge of reducing emissions from industry and intensive breeding of chickens and pigs

Starting this Sunday, the European Union launches its new legislation to reduce polluting emissions from industry, including mining and those generated by intensive poultry farming and the pig sector, but which leaves the beef industry out of its coverage. The new industrial emissions directive comes into force this Sunday and Member States have a period of 22 months from that day to transfer its provisions to their national legislative frameworks. This regulation 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 emission permits from the countries, as long as they comply with the required requirements. The goal is for emissions of these several "key" air pollutants to be reduced by 40% by 2050 compared to levels observed in 2020, the European Commission said in a statement. To achieve this, the EU governments and the European ...