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Smog from the “obwarzanek” flows to Krakow. An appeal to Donald Tusk

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The number of “smog days” in Krakow has decreased dramatically, from about 120 to a dozen or so a year. However, city councilors are afraid that the suspension of the Clean Air program will slow down the replacement of furnaces in neighboring municipalities, and smog from there will still reach Krakow. That is why they sent an appeal to Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

The resolution with the appeal was adopted unanimously during Wednesday's city council session. Councilors demand the immediate restoration of the Clean Air program. In the document, they drew attention to the residents' efforts to improve air quality so far.

“The Krakow municipality, especially its inhabitants, made a great effort to eliminate practically all solid fuel fireplaces in the municipality” – reported Łukasz Maślona from the Kraków Councilors' Club for Residents, which is the sponsor of the resolution.

In the appeal, local government officials noted that in recent years the number of days with very poor air condition in Krakow has decreased from approximately 120 to a dozen or so. However, as they added, the suspension of the “Clean Air” program will slow down the replacement of furnaces in neighboring communes, from where Kraków receives smog.

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Recruitment of applications suspended

The councilors also assessed that “Poland still has the most polluted air in the entire European Union; approximately 40,000 inhabitants of our country die prematurely every year due to breathing polluted air.”

“Therefore, the Krakow City Council appeals to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland to immediately resume the Clean Air program, so that anti-smog activities undertaken by municipalities can continue without obstacles,” reads the text of the resolution. At the same time, councilors did not deny the need to reform the program.

Last week, the president of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFOŚiGW), Dorota Zawadzka-Stępniak, announced that the recruitment of applications for the “Clean Air” program has been suspended until spring next year. She justified this decision with the need to reform the program. In her opinion, the scale of abuses and irregularities is so large that it is impossible to run the program in parallel and carry out a deep reform.



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