Smog: 10 pm, in January 18 days overruns in 5 cities

Five Italian cities - Frosinone, Milan, Padua, Turin and Treviso - have exceeded the limits of Pm10, fine particles for 18 times in January. This is what emerges from Legambiente's 'Mal'aria' report, which specifies that Naples (16 days) and Rome (15) are also poorly placed. In 2019, the association recalls, 26 outlawed urban centers for both fine dust (PM10) and ozone (O3). First Turin with 147 outlaw days (86 for PM10 and 61 for ozone), followed by Lodi and Pavia. Legambiente, in its report, also makes the 'balance' of '10 years of smog ': from 2010 to 2019 28% of the cities monitored by the association exceeded the daily limits of PM10 every year. Turin is first in the ranking 7 times out of 10, with a total of 1086 days of pollution in the city. While Frosinone is the only other city to have exceeded the quota of 1000 days of smog. A pollution, he underlines, that threatens the health of citizens and the environment. And smog finds in road transport one of the main sources of emissions of atmospheric pollutants in urban areas, without forgetting other sources such as domestic heating, industry and agriculture. "The now chronic smog emergency - declares Stefano Ciafani, national president of Legambiente - must be tackled effectively. The weak and sporadic anti-smog measures, such as the traffic blockade adopted in recent days in Rome and in various cities of the Peninsula, they are only palliative interventions that allow to temporarily contain the health damage, but do not produce lasting effects except within structural interventions. It is urgent to put in place effective and integrated policies and actions at national level that concern all polluting sources, planning interventions both on increasingly public, shared, zero-emission and multi-modal urban mobility, and on domestic heating, electricity production and industrial production and agriculture. Only in this way - concludes Ciafani - will it be possible to really attack air pollution and addressing the issue of the climate challenge in a concrete way ".