PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo is cracking down on companies it accuses of polluting the environment in one of Europe's poorest regions in a change of policy that seeks to reverse decades of neglect.
The country's economy is dependent on power from an aging plant that runs on coal and is regarded as the single biggest source of air and water pollution. After with an uncontrolled construction boom following the 1998-99 Kosovo war, authorities say the environmental situation has reached a critical stage.
"We are now at a phase that if we don't begin to take care of the environment it will be damaged to the extent that it will be irreparable," said Dardan Gashi, Kosovo's Minister …
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