Air pollution
Road traffic pollution costs billions in lost wellbeing in European cities
Tuesday 27 October 2020 |
Stefano Valentino | MobileReporter
VoxEurop
Five years after the Dieselgate scandal, new research puts some figures on the social costs of vehicle emissions in over 400 European cities. It turns out that the annual damage to each city is worth €385 million on average.
Diesel engines emissions exceed by far European limits
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Monday 18 June 2018 |
Stefano Valentino | MobileReporter
VoxEurop
A new independent report reveals how harmful emissions from diesel engines have yet to fall, despite increasingly strict European regulations, and promises from manufacturers to follow the rules.
Traffic pollution costs €60 billion per year in healthcare
Tuesday 15 January 2019 |
Déborah Berthier | VoxEurop
Each year 500 000 Europeans die prematurely as a result of air pollution. Road transport alone causes 18 percent of air pollution.
Diesel cars in the doghouse
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Wednesday 17 January 2018 |
Artur Włodarski | BiQdata
Despite the Dieselgate scandal, diesel-fueled cars are still the most popular in Europe. A trend that is slowly changing, as governments and the public opinion are starting to grasp with their impact on public health.
Bulgaria and its EU neighbours do not cope well with the repercussions of the Dieselgate
Tuesday 03 September 2019 |
Mila Cherneva | Capital
Only half of Volkswagen Group's problematic cars in Bulgaria have received a software update, and now the country risks being flooded with low-quality polluting vehicles from Western Europe.
The top 100 European places where Dieselgate kills the most
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Wednesday 04 April 2018 |
Stefano Valentino | MobileReporter
VoxEurop
Excess diesel emissions produce a tiny portion of harmful dusts. Yet, they cause dozens of deaths in Europe’s highly populated road traffic hotspots.
Air pollution kills more than 500,000 Europeans each year
Monday 05 November 2018 |
Déborah Berthier | VoxEurop
Despite the efforts of European countries, atmospheric pollution (fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone in particular) continues to kill hundreds of thousands of people every year.
Western Europeans more seduced than their Eastern neighbours by Volkswagen diesel “fix”
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Monday 05 March 2018 |
Peter Teffer | EUobserver
VoxEurop
Volkswagen Group is much more successful in convincing Dieselgate-affected consumers to have the illegal defeat device removed from their car in Western Europe than in Eastern Europe.
Pollution is still killing too many despite cleaner air
Monday 21 October 2019 |
Emanuela Barbiroglio | VoxEurop
The latest European Environment Agency report shows air is getting cleaner in Europe, but persistent pollution, especially in cities, still damages people’s health and the economy.
Thousands of deaths due to diesel cars
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Monday 18 September 2017 |
Stefano Valentino | MobileReporter
VoxEurop
Every year, about 10,000 people across Europe die prematurely because of diesel car emissions exceeding limits
