air quality

Romanians will find out air quality in real time: The Ministry of Environment is changing the monitoring system, moving from 24-hour averages to hourly pollution reporting, to avoid situations in which official sensors show “clean air” during serious pollution episodes.

Romania and seven other European Union member states received a warning with regard to their failure to improve air quality, and the main problems the European Commission referred to were emissions of tiny airborne particles known as PM 10.