The state secretary for the environment and circular economy, Anikó Raisz, told public broadcaster M1 on Tuesday that the government has implemented stricter emission caps for carcinogenic, gene—and foetal-damaging substances and heavy metals such as nickel, cobalt, and manganese.
Stricter emission caps in Hungary
The cap on manganese emissions has been lowered by one-fifth, while those of nickel and cobalt have been halved, among other measures.
The significantly stricter provisions will apply from the legislation’s entry into force for new investments, i.e., those for which the environmental permit procedure has not yet started, and from 1 January 2027 for ongoing permits. The new, much stricter emission limit values will apply for existing plants from 1 January 2028. In all cases, the operators must initiate any changes to the relevant permits.
She added that
Hungary had maintained EU emission caps, but the government decided to bring in stricter regulations.
Hungarian law now also obliges plants to prepare environmental impact assessments.
The authorities continuously monitor compliance with the rules and take appropriate action if industrial plants are not operating by the law or the permit.
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The data geeks and facts people will appreciate this. Older, already, but quite current en granular:
https://climate.ec.europa.eu/document/download/c1356247-beea-408b-b444-790a55065134_en?filename=hu_2023_factsheet_en.pdf
TLDR – for the EU haters – skip to the end and check out the funding?
Not good.
China opens up a new coal power plant every single week while we’re tying our hands like this. Absurd. We should be drilling, fracking, and mining up the yin-yang, and the only guiding principle should be to make our people’s lives cheaper, better, and easier.