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Seventy years ago, London was engulfed in a deadly fog. For four days, staying in the city posed a serious threat, and life in the capital almost ground to a halt – writes Maria Andrzejewska, editor at BiznesAlert.pl.

Lignite is not suitable for burning in domestic installations. Burning such fuel in a stove that is not adapted to it, may damage or even destroy it, says the leader of the Polish Smog Alarm Andrzej Guła in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl.

There is a risk that there will be no fuel available on the market and people will reach for raw materials that should not be burned. This may include, for example, varnished wood, plastic or other waste. In result, the air will be very polluted and a cocktail of carcinogenic fumes will float above Poland […]

By the end of 2022, still over 14 thousand polluting furnaces will need to be replaced in Warsaw. Although the city has launched a generous subsidy program for residents to change the source of heating, the fight against smog is moving too slow, says Piotr Siergiej, the spokesman for the Polish Smog Alert, in an […]

City activist, environmentalist and Katowice councilman Patryk Białas won a lawsuit against the Szczyrk municipality, which imposed a climate fee on tourists, despite the fact that the air quality there is low in the winter. He talked to BiznesAlert.pl about the details of this case.

In the Lesser Poland Voivodship an anti-smog resolution will enter into force on the 1st of January 2023. It will make it illegal to use heaters running on solid fuels that do not meet emission requirements. Heating with coal is becoming less available, because the coal that meets the requirements of the so-called „ekoprojekt” is […]

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The Ministry of the Environment emphasizes that there is no threat for the implementation of the Clean Air Program, and applications for financial support for the modernization of the building or credit for renewable energy installations can be submitted as before. A spokesman for the Ministry of the Environment in an interview for the BiznesAlert.pl […]