EU Parliament votes for watered down emissions standard that will be used to greenwash dirty cars.
EU lawmakers should rename a draft vehicle emissions law as ‘Euro 6 F’ to avoid the wholesale greenwashing of dirty cars, green group Transport & Environment (T&E) has said. Today the EU Parliament backed a so-called ‘Euro 7’ standard that fails to significantly increase air pollution protections beyond its Euro 6 predecessor. It would maintain the same nitrous oxide (NOx) limit for petrol cars as Euro 6 and barely improve testing which is crucial to ensure that limits are actually met.
Today European newspapers are publishing the results of an investigation into car industry lobbying to waterdown air pollution rules that would have prevented 35,000 premature deaths.
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