Articles related to "EU clean air strategy"

With an overhaul of air quality laws due within a year, health advocates are calling for the European Commission to resist pressure to tone down the EU’s pollution standards and instead replace them with stronger UN guidelines.

Dan wears a clear plastic bubble over his head so fellow partygoers don't have to breathe his cigarette smoke, one of the most readily identifiable spoilers of indoor air.

WWF wrote to the Swedish EU Presidency on Friday (21 August) to urge governments to modify a "legally invalid" provision contained in draft rules on industrial pollution, which prevents member states from introducing CO2 emission standards.

After long negotiations, EU environment ministers yesterday (25 June) reached a political agreement to tighten rules on harmful industrial emissions, which are responsible for damage like acid rain. But tensions with environmentalists are expected to resurface when the bill returns to the European Parliament later this year or next.

A decision taken by the UK government yesterday (15 January) to build a new runway at Heathrow airport has met with fierce resistance from local residents and environmental groups.

The Commission yesterday (16 September) celebrated the launch of the 7th European Mobility Week aimed at encouraging citizens to give up their cars and make cities less polluted. But a much-anticipated EU action plan on urban mobility is being held up.

The EU Council of Ministers has endorsed a new directive setting binding EU-wide limits for fine particle emissions, which cause respiratory diseases thought to reduce European life expectancy by up to three years.

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has released its fourth assessment report on the environmental situation in 53 European countries, highlighting significant air pollution, biodiversity loss and poor water quality across the region. 

By the end of 2007, trucks and buses could be faced with costly plans from the Commission to reduce harmful emissions, such as particulate matter and nitrogen oxides.

Proposed new fuel-quality standards have oil companies fuming as Commission seeks deeper cuts in CO2 and other noxious pollutants emitted by petrol refining and use. The new standards also encourage increased blending with biofuels.

A survey of 26 large European cities shows that only three are in full compliance with EU air-quality standards. The survey comes one week ahead of a key vote on air quality in the Council.

The Parliament’s environment committee agreed to new rules on car pollution that will effectively delay until 2011 carmakers’ obligation to further cut emissions of harmful air pollutants from new vehicles.

Policy-makers stressed the role of urban communities in improving air quality at a debate taking place in the context of Green Week 2006.

New data from the European Environment Agency reveals air pollution limit values were frequently exceeded at street level and in urban hotspots during the year 2000.

There is no surprise that EU Health officials are not listening to tobacco retailers and the tobacco industry, smoking costs the EU the equivalent of its budget each year, according to three public health campaigners.