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23 January 2020 In 2019 there were 26 outlawed urban centers for both fine dust (PM10) and ozone (O3). Turin is the first city with 147 outlaw days (86 for PM10 and 61 for ozone), followed by Lodi and Pavia. From 2010 to 2019, 28% of the cities monitored by Legambiente exceeded the daily limits of PM10 every year. This is the photograph of Legambiente that monitored the pollution through the Mal'aria report.

In Italy, says Legambiente, the smog emergency is increasingly chronic and reappears punctually every year. Mal'aria, the annual report of the environmental association, this year takes a triple photo on the new year that has opened with cities in red code, on 2019 and on the decade that we have left behind.

In the first three weeks of 2020 Frosinone and Milan (19), Padua, Turin and Treviso are the urban centers that exceeded the PM10 limits for 18 days. Also bad Naples (16) and Rome (15). A smog emergency that also marked 2019, a critical year on the Mal'aria front, with 54 provincial capitals exceeded the limit set for fine dust (PM10) or for ozone (O3), set respectively in 35 and 25 days in the calendar year.

In 26 of the 54 provincial capitals, the limit was exceeded for both parameters. Turin with 147 days (86 for 10 and 61 for ozone) is the city that last year has passed the greatest number of outlaw days, followed by Lodi with 135 (55 for PM10 and 80 for ozone) and Pavia with 130 (65 exceedances for both pollutants). And also the decade 2010-2019 leaves us with a negative balance with 28% of the cities monitored by Legambiente that have exceeded the daily limits of PM10 every year, 10 times out of 10. Black jersey in Turin, first in the standings 7 times out of 10, with a total of 1086 days of pollution in the city. A pollution that threatens the health of citizens and the surrounding environment which finds in road transport one of the main sources of emissions of air pollutants in urban areas, without forgetting other sources such as domestic heating, industry and agriculture. Sectors on which it is necessary to act synergistically.

The environmental association has also launched its proposals such as that of enhancing local public transport making it efficient, widespread, zero emissions and thus reducing the number of vehicles circulating in Italy, and to rethink cities in a sustainable key by making people aware , through information and awareness campaigns on often misleading advertisements related to the car market.

"The now chronic smog emergency - declares Stefano Ciafani, national president of Legambiente - must be effectively addressed. 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 temporary containment of 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, by planning interventions both on increasingly public, shared, zero-emission and multi-modal urban mobility, and on domestic heating, electricity and industrial production and agriculture. Only in this way will it be possible to really attack air pollution and deal in a the issue of the climate challenge is concrete ".