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Ten EU nations still breaching pollution limits: EEA

2016-06-10 12:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Air pollution from sources such as transport and agriculture is still above legal limits in 10 European Union member states, data from the European Environment Agency (EEA) showed on Friday. Since 2010, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg have persistently breached their emissions ceilings for nitrogen oxides; Denmark, Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg have exceeded their limits for non-methane volatile organic compounds; and Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Spain...

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Air pollution will kill thousands in Europe, EEA warns

2015-03-03 06:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Hundreds of thousands of Europeans will suffer a premature death in the next two decades as the result of governments failure to act on air pollution, Europes environmental watchdog has warned. In 2011, the latest year for which figures have been reliably collated, more than 400,000 are estimated to have died prematurely as a result of breathing toxic fumes, despite recent improvements in some countries The UK has been one of the worst offenders, with government figures showing that European...

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Eleven EU nations exceed air pollution ceilings: EEA

2014-03-25 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Eleven European Union nations breached ceilings for air pollution in 2012 despite plans to avert health-damaging smog of the sort that choked Paris this month, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said on Monday. The number rose from 10 in 2011, with the addition of Malta to the list of states above national limits set for at least one of four pollutants from sources including industry and cars. "Air pollution is still a very real problem," EEA executive director Hans Bruyninckx said in a...

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