Italy chokes under smog as air pollution rises, forcing authorities to introduce traffic curbs
MILAN - More than a dozen cities and towns across Italy introduced traffic curbs on Wednesday in a bid to cut harmful emissions following a spike in pollution.
Officials in the northeastern city of Turin, home to Italian automaker Fiat, banned cars built before 2013 from taking to the roads, as did at least 11 other municipalities in the surrounding Piedmont region. “ is surrounded by mountains so with environmental conditions like today, when there is no wind, the air gets stuck in the middle of the valley,” said Renato Grampa, an engineer. “Heating systems and car emissions create this bubble of smog.”
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