Air pollution in most EU Member States exceeds the limit values imposed by EU legislation on ambient air quality, let alone the more stringent recommendations of the World Health Organization, according to official data for 2019 and provisional data for 2020 published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) on 21 September.
New WHO recommendations are expected on Wednesday 22 September.
The EEA report compiles data from over 4,500 monitoring stations in 40 European countries, including the...