The applicants were 180 individuals who lived or have lived in the municipality of Taranto and the neighbouring areas, in Italy. They filed a case against Ilva’s Taranto Plant (an industrial steelworks complex) (hereinafter ‘the factory’) for serious ecological harm caused due to the harmful emissions from its plant which has impacted the health of …Read more

The applicants were eleven Ukrainian nationals residing in Vilshyna in the Lviv region of Ukraine had. They filed the case against the Ukranian Government (hereinafter ‘the Government’) alleging the failure of the state authorities to protect their home, private and family life from the excessive pollution generated by two state-owned industrial facilities. The facilities had …Read more