{"id":238285,"date":"2023-11-13T03:22:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T03:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/air-pollution-standard-backed-by-meps-is-worse-than-useless\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T03:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T03:22:30","slug":"air-pollution-standard-backed-by-meps-is-worse-than-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/air-pollution-standard-backed-by-meps-is-worse-than-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Pollution Standard Backed By MEPs Is \u2018Worse Than Useless\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
EU Parliament\u00a0votes for watered down emissions standard that will be used to greenwash dirty cars.<\/p>\n
EU lawmakers should rename a draft vehicle emissions law as \u2018Euro 6 F\u2019 to avoid the wholesale greenwashing of dirty cars, green group Transport & Environment (T&E) has said. Today the EU Parliament backed a so-called \u2018Euro 7\u2019 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.<\/p>\n
\nToday 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.<\/p>\n