the ROME – The high pressure is doing to raise the levels of smog in the North of the Country. Piemonte, Lombardia and Veneto close their city to automobile traffic.
Turin: , the most polluted city in Italy, from the 2nd of January saw the block of a diesel up to Euro 4, but the weather conditions are stable – a lack of precipitation and poor ventilation – suggest that the stops of the Euro 5 registered before the first of January, 2013: are most of the 320 thousand diesel of that category on the road in Piedmont. In addition to the twenty municipalities of the metropolitan area of Turin, light “orange” (level of pollution, intermediate, and less than ten consecutive days of overdraft) is kindled to Asti , Alexandria , Casale , Tortona , Novi Ligure , Vercelli , Novara and Trecate .
Milan , the presence of Pm10 (down) to 45.8 micrograms per cubic meter, the stop to the auto-powered to diesel – up to Euro 4 in this case – is confirmed for the second day in a row. The particulates remain high throughout the province. The prohibitions of the first level have been revoked today in Monza , Bergamo , Pavia , Vigevano and in the municipalities of the four provinces, above 30 thousand inhabitants. Remains the stop, Como and Cremona , where the limits have been exceeded for ten consecutive days, as a certified Agency, Arpa, which monitors air quality. The restrictions were introduced, again, in the provinces of Praise and Mantua , in this last city the particulates are over the threshold by a week. In the absence of climate change, the regional administration will decide on the measures even more restrictive.
