German tabloid Bild described the pollution as a “thick cloud of Polish smog”.

German tabloid Bild described the pollution as a “thick cloud of Polish smog”.
Older, more polluting cars would have been banned from the city centre of Kraków.
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Kraków air has improved in recent years, but it still regularly records some of the worst pollution in the world.
The government hopes to replace half of the one million coal-fired boilers still in use in buildings containing multiple dwellings by 2030.
The city’s new “clean transport zone” will begin to ban older cars from mid-2024.
The ranking features towns and villages but no large cities.
Wojciech Kość
Over 80 tonnes of dead fish have so far been found.
“I’ve never seen the river in such bad condition,” says a local angler. “The water is brown and smelly, it looks like sewage.”
With a budget of 103 billion zloty (€22.5 billion), the programme is supposed to be the largest of its kind in Europe
The shockwave generator pushes toxic particles higher up into the air.
Kraków yesterday topped a global air pollution ranking, coming ahead of Lahore and New Delhi.
But the judge noted that the ruling does not automatically open the way for anyone in Poland to demand compensation.
Higher income thresholds will also allow more people to benefit from thermo-modernisation subsidies.
Orzesze had an annual mean PM2.5 level four times the WHO target.