The animal welfare foundation paid over 526,000 Euros for communication services to companies owned by oligarch Gyula Balásy.

The two battery waste management companies belonging to the ALTEO group challenged the ruling, arguing that used batteries are products for sale rather than waste.

Former construction minister János Lázár has been fined over 35,000 Euros by the local forestry authority for constructions in a forest without permit.

The Animal Protection Is Our Common Cause Foundation launched suspiciously worded public producement tenders and spent less then half of its funds on animal welfare.

Two mayors, both dealing with environmental concerns by a nearby battery processing facilities, explain their fundamentally different approach to the same problem.

They classify the defective batteries as ordinary goods and do not label the shipment as hazardous; they transport them to warehouses in Hungary and then on to Poland.

Despite handling hazardous materials, the authorities did not require the battery waste processing plant to acquire an environmental permit.

Workers have been continuously exposed to carcinogens at the plant of the Korean SungEel company. The town is trying to block the renewal of the factory's permit in court.

Telex cites leaked internal documents showing that shortly before Átlátszó was targeted by the Sovereignty Protection Office, the management of the Samsung battery factory was discussing ways to shot down our investigations into their pollution.

While the Ministry of Agriculture says everything is fine with Hungary’s forests, large sections of protected forests are being cut down to fuel biomass power plants.

The Budapest Regional Court annulled the environmental permit of the Samsung battery factory of Göd, ruling that the permit was issued illegally.