https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed ArcelorMittal said on Monday it was pulling out of the purchase of Italy's struggling steel firm Ilva after parliament scrapped a legal protection deemed necessary to undertake crucial environmental work without criminal liability. https://www.thelocal.it/20191104/arcelormittal-pulls-out-of-deal-to-buy-ilva-italy-toxic-steel-plant-taranto Mon, 04 Nov 2019 18:18:34 +0100 arcelormittal-pulls-out-of-deal-to-buy-ilva-italy-toxic-steel-plant-taranto European Union anti-trust authorities have opened an investigation into global steel giant ArcelorMittal's bid to buy struggling Italian steel producer Ilva, officials said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20171109/eu-opens-probe-into-arcelormittal-purchase-of-ilva Thu, 09 Nov 2017 10:20:03 +0100 eu-opens-probe-into-arcelormittal-purchase-of-ilva A consortium led by global steel giant ArcelorMittal said on Friday the Italian authorities had cleared it to buy struggling steel producer Ilva, but thousands of jobs are threatened. https://www.thelocal.it/20170617/arcelormittal-gets-green-light-to-buy-italys-ilva Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:40:54 +0200 arcelormittal-gets-green-light-to-buy-italys-ilva The rate of cancer among children in Taranto, southern Italy - home to the Ilva steel plant - is 30 percent higher than the national average, the first report into cancer rates in the region shows. https://www.thelocal.it/20160919/steel-plants-blamed-for-high-child-cancer-rate-in-southern-italy Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:45:53 +0200 steel-plants-blamed-for-high-child-cancer-rate-in-southern-italy In the fields around Taranto, Puglia, more and more farmers are sowing fields of cannabis in a bid to save their precious soil which has been rendered unsafe thanks to years of pollution from Europe's biggest steel plant. https://www.thelocal.it/20160603/puglias-farmers-sow-fields-of-cannabis-to-save-soils-from-steel-plant-pollution Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:00:37 +0200 puglias-farmers-sow-fields-of-cannabis-to-save-soils-from-steel-plant-pollution In the impoverished city of Taranto, work that has provoked cancer is preferable to starving. https://www.thelocal.it/20150401/italys-steel-workers-risk-cancer-or-hunger Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:08:29 +0200 italys-steel-workers-risk-cancer-or-hunger Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Sunday floated the idea of nationalising during "two or three years" the country's loss-making Ilva steel plant, one of Europe's most polluting. https://www.thelocal.it/20141201/renzi-moots-nationalisation-of-troubled-steel-plant Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:17:00 +0100 renzi-moots-nationalisation-of-troubled-steel-plant ArcelorMittal has teamed up with Italy's Marcegaglia to bid for Ilva, a loss-making Italian steel plant at the centre of a major environmental scandal, the target company confirmed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20141126/mittal-bids-for-scandal-hit-italian-steel-plant Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:06:00 +0100 mittal-bids-for-scandal-hit-italian-steel-plant A blast furnace at an Italian steel plant was shut down on Thursday with 4,000 jobs at risk despite a call by Pope Francis for officials "to make every effort in terms of creativity and generosity to rekindle hope". https://www.thelocal.it/20140424/italy-factory-shutdown-threatens-4000-jobs Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:25:00 +0200 italy-factory-shutdown-threatens-4000-jobs Italy's steelmaker Riva Acciaio will resume operations at several plants which it closed earlier this month because of a long-running legal row, Italy's economic development minister said Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20130928/italys-steelmaker-riva-acciaio-to-re-open-plants Sat, 28 Sep 2013 15:03:00 +0200 italys-steelmaker-riva-acciaio-to-re-open-plants Enrico Bondi, the commissioner of Italian steel company ILVA, will meet environment minister, Andrea Orlando, after blaming the rise in cancer rates in Taranto on the "high rates of smoking and alcohol consumption" in the southern port city and not pollution linked to one of the company's mills. https://www.thelocal.it/20130715/commissioner-summoned-in-italian-steel-disaster Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:50:00 +0200 commissioner-summoned-in-italian-steel-disaster Italian police on Friday seized 8.1 billion euros in steel assets from a family at the centre of an investigation over pollution linked to dozens of deaths at one of its plants https://www.thelocal.it/20130524/steel-assets-seized-over-plant-pollution-scandal Fri, 24 May 2013 18:29:00 +0200 steel-assets-seized-over-plant-pollution-scandal