Italy's center-left PD proposes immunity for past damage at Ilva
Reuters
Published Nov 05, 2019 08:15AM ET
Italy's center-left PD proposes immunity for past damage at Ilva
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's center-left Democratic Party (PD), part of the ruling coalition, will propose restoring legal immunity to ArcelorMittal (AS:MT) for past environmental damage caused by troubled steel group Ilva, the party's leader said on Tuesday.
"Anyone who pollutes should pay but a group implementing an environmental plan should not have penal liability for previous actions for which it had no responsibility. We will propose parliamentary measures in this sense," PD party leader Nicola Zingaretti said on a statement.
ArcelorMittal said on Monday it was abandoning a deal to buy Ilva's huge steel works in the southern city of Taranto after Rome reneged on a pledge to give it immunity from prosecution over environmental damage at the heavily polluting plant.
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