Greenpeace hung banner on Ministry of Environment

Environmental organization Greenpeace hung a banner Wednesday on the building of the Ministry of the Environment, which depicts Minister Maciej Grabowski, who is covering his mouth, his ears and his eyes with a message below "Smog is poisoning us, why the minister is not reacting?". "The minister's negligence in its attempt to solve the problem of air pollution are outrageous and are threatening the health of us all. We breathe the toxic cocktail that causes the premature death of about 45,000 people a year," said Iwo Łoś, expert for energy at Greenpeace Polska. The activists claim that the National Program for Air Protection prepared by the Ministry is non-binding and misleading. In their view, the document contains inaccurate data and does not include emissions from all sources of air pollution, it excludes coal power plants, for example. "The Ministry of the Environment must take into account the pollution produced by the energy and industry sectors," according to Iwo Łoś.