Air Quality – 2013 (Special Reports)

Special reports written by EurActiv in June 2013.

Economic heavyweights France and Germany continue to violate limits of one of Europe’s most common urban pollutants, nitrogen oxides, despite their legal obligations to clean up the air.
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When a London anti-pollution organisation polled British lawmakers about the greatest risks to public health, most MPs were wrong, ranking traffic accidents or heavy drinking ahead of air pollution as a leading killer of Britons.
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From wood stoves to diesel engines, the European Union has promoted fossil fuel alternatives and technology to help meet its obligations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions blamed for climate change. But these are also contribute to dirty air, leaving regulators to figure out some legislative repair work.
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In the Belgian port of Zeebrugge one spring day, a hulking cargo ship waiting to make its 36-hour run to the Swedish port of Gothenburg sat as a model for European and international efforts to reduce vessel emissions.

• Primary Source

EurActiv, 03.06.13: Auto pollution exceeds manufacturers’ claims, report says http://www.euractiv.com/climate-environment/auto-pollution-exceeds-manufactu-news-528273

EurActiv, 03.06.13: From coal to cars, EU states fail to combat air pollution http://www.euractiv.com/general/coal-cars-eu-states-fail-combat-news-528176

EurActiv, 04.06.13: British survey exposes ignorance of air quality challenge http://www.euractiv.com/specialreport-air-quality-2013/british-survey-exposes-ignorance-news-528267

EurActiv, 05.06.13: Trade-offs: What’s good for the climate may not be good for the air http://www.euractiv.com/specialreport-air-quality-2013/trade-offs-good-climate-may-good-news-528303

EurActiv, 07.06.13: Shippers under the gun to meet new air quality standards http://www.euractiv.com/specialreport-air-quality-2013/shippers-gun-meet-new-air-qualit-news-528359

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