By Chris Milton •
September 10, 2008
Did your grandparents ever make you orange squash when you were a kid? Mine did, and I could always tell who had made it by how watery it was. Yech!
So it is with EU legislation. It’s not a question of if it’s going to be watered down, but by how much. For example, efforts to cut vehicle CO2 emissions have been drastically undermined thanks to sustained lobbying from the motor industry.
The original proposal was to cut all new vehicle emissions from around 160 g/km to 120 g/km by 2012, backed up with a fine of €90 for every g/km emitted over the limit by a manufacturer’s average vehicle.
By Martín Cagliani •
February 27, 2008
Until today, stolen or crashed vehicles with judicial causes remained forever at fiscal deposits or police stations, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There you could see, literally, mountains of cars and junk. As you can imagine these places became focal points of infection and contamination.
To avoid the growing car cemeteries, the government of Buenos Aires has decided to eradicate these prejudicial elements to the environment. How? They plan on compacting the cars [...]
By Max Lindberg •
February 18, 2008
They tried, but Chief Judge of the US District court in Vermont, William K Sessions III ruled against the auto industry’s attempt to block states, including Vermont, from adopting more rigorous greenhouse gas emission standards for new light-duty vehicles.
In his ruling, Judge Sessions said the industry failed to prove that the state standards were unattainable, that they usurp the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) prerogative to set fuel economy standards, and [...]
