Russia's MMK takes more actions for nature conservation

Russia's Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) continues to actively develop its environmental protection activities, having allocated more than 19 billion roubles ($207.8 million) for this purpose last year, the rating agency Rusmet reported. Of this amount, 15 billion roubles were allocated for capital construction of environmental protection facilities.

During the year, 46 projects to reduce and prevent negative environmental impact were implemented, and another 16 are in the process of implementation. Specific emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere were decreased by 9.3%, and specific discharges of pollutants into water bodies were decreased by 19%. About 1.7 million tonnes