EU AIR QUALITY PLAN
September 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has released a detailed plan to cut the annual number of premature deaths from air pollution-related diseases by almost 40% from the year 2000, while substantially reducing the European forests and ecosystems threatened by filthy air. Crucially, it will propose a new ambient air quality directive that for the first time would require reductions in average fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations throughout each European Union (EU) member state, setting special caps on concentrations in the most polluted areas. There ...
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