Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Environment and Nature Management Committee looked into the conservation program of Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works (NTMK).

It was reported at the committee’s meeting that the enterprise was still one of Sverdlovsk Region’s top twenty air polluters.

‘Up to 60% of the air in Nizhniy Tagil consists of pollutants emitted by NTMK, and the quality of this air has not improved a bit over the last few years, according to the data available from the automatic air monitoring tests,’ the committee members stated.