Diesel,with its lower CO2 emissions, was a policy precedence but NOx failed to tumble despite the ‘stringent’ regulationsFrom backroom deals between European leaders to the burying of the gross news of 23000 premature UK deaths on the day Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, or the scandal that has engulfed the diesel car is a startling tale.
It is a story of good intentions being relentlessly undermined and has a nasty twist in the tail: even the real rationale for Europe’s drive for diesel – to curb global warming – has escape into the wall.
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Source: theguardian.com