Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment: Food vs fuel: Europe burns 19 million bottles of sunflower and rapeseed oil every day in cars
Corporate profits are the goal of the EU, not the common good or environment Read Here
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Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment: MEPs opt for weak car targets in blow to affordable EVs and the climate
EU Parliament must support more ambitious 2030 target and interim 2027 goal to drive down electric car prices and help countries cut their transport emissions. Read Here
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment – True cost of Big Oil’s profits: Trillions in unpaid health and environmental costs
BP, Eni, Repsol, Shell, and TotalEnergies have paid back just 5% of the €13 trillion in societal and environmental debt. Read Here
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment: Food crisis: Europe burns equivalent of 15 million loaves of bread every day in cars
Europe’s biofuels lobby is pushing for more crop burning despite collapse in supplies of key grains from Ukraine and Russia and impending global food crisis Read Here CC BY 3.0
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Transport & Environment: Taxpayers face €9bn bill for fuel tax cuts skewed towards the rich, study finds
In EU, richest drivers will receive eight times more public money than poorest. Read Here Photo: Pp391 licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment: Shipping carbon price loophole lets millions of tonnes of CO2 off the hook
The EU’s “Brown Deal” makes it possible Read Here
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment: In tests, cars powered by e-petrol pollute the air as much as petrol
Running cars on e-fuels, which have been touted as a way to prolong the life of the internal combustion engine, will not alleviate air pollution problems. Read here
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment: Trucks still breaking EU’s legal emission limits in on-road tests
Automotive industry opposition to new emission standard could lead to thousands of avoidable premature deaths. Read here
Energy
Transport & Environment: Gas truck as bad for the climate as diesel in on-road tests
Trucks powered by LNG are a dead-end for cutting climate emissions and emit more cancer-causing particles. Read here
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment – Car industry “dirty tricks” seek to derail tough EU emissions standards
Ambitious legal limits for nearly 100 million new cars will improve public health for decades, but car industry is trying to sabotage this Transport & Environment’s mission is to promote, at EU and global level, […]