"In order to protect human health and the environment, the Council of the European Union drew up a directive with air quality standards in April 1999. With the Ordinance on Air Quality Standards and Emission Ceilings (39. BImSchV), the Federal Government transposed this EU directive into national legislation. The directive establishes limit values for pollutant concentration in order to maintain the air quality.
Accordingly, the limit value for particulate matter was set at 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air, which may be exceeded on a maximum of 35 days a year. The average annual value for nitrogen dioxide was set at 40µg/m3. The EU directive obliges cities and municipalities to draw up action plans for air pollution control. These plans have formed the basis for the implementation of 44 low-emission zones with limited access for vehicles with high emissions so far."
https://www.right-to-clean-air.eu/en/lawsuits-and-decisions/germany/
Diesel-Fahrverbote in Stuttgart ab 2018: Deutsche Umwelthilfe begrüßt Zustimmung des Landes Baden-Württemberg zur Sprungrevision
"Jürgen Resch, Bundesgeschäftsführer der DUH kommentiert das Ergebnis: „So sehr wir für die vom Dieselabgasgift Stickstoffdioxid geschädigten Stuttgarter Bürger auf ein Anerkenntnis des Urteils und damit Diesel-Fahrverbote ab dem 1.1.2018 gehofft haben, können wir auch mit der Zustimmung der Landesregierung zur Sprungrevision leben. Es kann aber nicht sein, dass den von Dieselabgasgiften betroffenen zehntausenden Menschen im Stuttgarter Kessel ein weiterer giftiger Diesel-Winter zugemutet wird. Wir fordern Ministerpräsident Winfried Kretschmann und Oberbürgermeister Fritz Kuhn gleichzeitig dazu auf, als Ausgleich für den Verzicht auf die Anerkenntnis des Urteils bereits zu Beginn des Winterhalbjahres mit Sofortmaßnahmen die NO2-Belastung zu reduzieren. Dazu gehört neben einer Adhoc-Nachrüstung aller ÖPNV-Busse und Landes-/Kommunalfahrzeuge auf Euro 6 ein Einfahrtverbot für alle Diesel mit temperaturgesteuerter Abschaltung der ordnungsgemäßen Abgasreinigung bei unter + 10 Grad Celsius."https://www.right-to-clean-air.eu/presse/pressemitteilungen/details/diesel-fahrverbote-in-stuttgart-ab-2018-deutsche-umwelthilfe-begruesst-zustimmung-des-landes-baden-wue/
Showing posts with label Automotive Exhaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Automotive Exhaust. Show all posts
Thursday, February 22, 2018
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6 million new dirty diesel cars on Europe's roads since 2015!
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Urban Air Initiative?
A new promising but also questionable campaign called the "Urban Air Initiative" has been launched http://urbanairinitiative.com
We are looking forward to see how this campaign will develop.
There are some signs that the Diesel-Lobby is trying hard to 'white-wash' Diesel Exhaust with the help from Burson-Marsteller and bought "Scientists". One of the alleged Junk-Scientists, "Consultant" and Meteorologist is Loren Carl Marz, who already in 2002 suggested - against all scientific evidence - that Diesel was less harmful than petrol. More alleged Junk-Science is now produced and released by the American Geophysical Union including Roya Bahraini... unfortunately the urbanairinitiative.com has no problem with citing Bahraini as a credible source. Well maybe we must defend Baharaini a bit, the study focuses on Secondary Organic Aerosol Mass: from a Clean Air Perspective (as from where the urbanairinitiative.com claims to be looking things) this is just the wrong premise: From a toxicological point of view overall particulate mass isn't the relevant public health threat: On the alveolar level this means: the smaller and therefore lighter the particles the more dangerous. Thats why health experts today focus on Particle Numbers or even better on the LDSA (Lung Deposited Surface Area). Diesel Exhaust is far more toxic than gasoline exhaust and contains far more noxious nano-particles from which many are PFR's (Persitent Free Radicals).But Bahraini seriously concludes that only gasoline emission should be reduced, ignoring all relevant and recent science on diesel exhaust... Even from a climate change perspective Diesel is worse than gasoline (see Mark Jacobson et al., Stanford, Ca). The urban air initiative doesn't allow comments yet, but we d'like to discuss this issue with them.
We are looking forward to see how this campaign will develop.
There are some signs that the Diesel-Lobby is trying hard to 'white-wash' Diesel Exhaust with the help from Burson-Marsteller and bought "Scientists". One of the alleged Junk-Scientists, "Consultant" and Meteorologist is Loren Carl Marz, who already in 2002 suggested - against all scientific evidence - that Diesel was less harmful than petrol. More alleged Junk-Science is now produced and released by the American Geophysical Union including Roya Bahraini... unfortunately the urbanairinitiative.com has no problem with citing Bahraini as a credible source. Well maybe we must defend Baharaini a bit, the study focuses on Secondary Organic Aerosol Mass: from a Clean Air Perspective (as from where the urbanairinitiative.com claims to be looking things) this is just the wrong premise: From a toxicological point of view overall particulate mass isn't the relevant public health threat: On the alveolar level this means: the smaller and therefore lighter the particles the more dangerous. Thats why health experts today focus on Particle Numbers or even better on the LDSA (Lung Deposited Surface Area). Diesel Exhaust is far more toxic than gasoline exhaust and contains far more noxious nano-particles from which many are PFR's (Persitent Free Radicals).But Bahraini seriously concludes that only gasoline emission should be reduced, ignoring all relevant and recent science on diesel exhaust... Even from a climate change perspective Diesel is worse than gasoline (see Mark Jacobson et al., Stanford, Ca). The urban air initiative doesn't allow comments yet, but we d'like to discuss this issue with them.
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