Devastationing Environmental Disaster: Seveso Cannot Escape the Dioxin Cloud to This Day
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The president: "It was the sad paradigm of what should not be done"
50 years ago, a poison cloud spreads over the northern Italian municipality of Seveso. The consequences for health and the environment are serious, but civil society manages to learn an important lesson from it.
(Agenzia Vista) Rome, 10 July 2026 'The norms subsequently elaborated on a continental scale had historical value'. The words of the Head of State at the official ceremony for the fiftieth anniversary of the environmental disaster in Seveso on 10 July 1976, when a toxic cloud of dioxin was released following an explosion in the industrial plant of the Icmesa. "What happened in Seveso became a turning point, in the Italian and European consciousn…
It was one of the most dramatic events in Italian history and the global level, says the Head of State, recalling the trauma, the suffering, the anguish for the toxic cloud and then the exodus that was necessary.
It was the first environmental disaster of the twentieth century, Seveso. The toxic cloud of dioxin, the evil that is not seen but felt in the days and weeks following on the skin beyond...
The head of state at the site of the environmental disaster 50 years later: "To this day it is still intolerable to irresponsibility of the company's top management"
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