The European Commission presented on Tuesday proposals to update Industrial Emissions Directive, a critical legislation to help control industrial pollution. Under the guidelines, factories and mines in Europe would be subject to stricter pollution limitations in order to obtain permits to operate. The rules would also limit planet-warming emissions from livestock farms.
According to the European Union's estimations, industrial pollution damages nature and hurts human health, costing Europe billions of euros and resulting in hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year.
