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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

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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.<\/p>\n

The @VoxEurop<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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