The public prosecutor's office of the southern Italian city of Taranto has dismissed the request of the environmental protection division of Italy's national gendarmerie (Carabinieri) to shut down production at the plant of the Italian steel producer Ilva in the city.
In the last four months, the Carabinieri's environmental protection division has been monitoring the activities and the pollution emissions of Ilva's facilities, finding some irregularities. However, as Ilva's legal advisor Francesco Perli said, the public prosecutor's office of Taranto has rejected the petition of the Carabinieri, finding that the facilities in question have not sufficiently high pollution levels to consider halting production activities and that Ilva has taken every measure to minimize the problems in question as much as possible.