The Environment Agency announced today that the European air pollution in Europe cost European citizens more than $ 136 billion.
The news agency United Press International, the Environment Agency, based in Copenhagen, said in a new report on the costs of the harm inflicted by air pollution, health and the environment that the cost of air pollution in Europe were among 102 and 169 billion euros, ie between 136 and $ 263 billion in 2009, pointing out that half of the cost comes from 191 facility only.
Said Jacqueline Makgalayd Executive Director of the Agency that our analysis revealed that the highest cost resulted from the pollution from power plants and other large industrial plants have been calculated using the estimated costs of emissions reported by the facilities.
The Makgalayd that through the use of the means provided by the policy makers to estimate the harm done to health and the environment have uncovered some hidden costs of pollution.
The report, titled / detection costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe / the list of facilities that contribute to the harm and include oil refineries and nuclear power stations and industrial combustion processes and some agricultural and other activities related to waste treatment.
The report showed that Germany, Poland, Britain, France and Italy has the largest number of large facilities that contribute to the higher proportion of the pollution.
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