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EU's ban on inefficient toasters delayed to avoid pro-Brexit press attack
2016-02-28 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The EU has put plans to regulate inefficient kettles and toasters into cold storage amid fears in Brussels that they could galvanise support for the leave campaign in the UKs 23 June referendum. Mobile phones, lifts, hair- and hand-dryers and vending machines are also on a shortlist of products for increased regulation in 2015-17. The measures had been expected to save the equivalent of 10m tonnes of CO2 emissions per year by 2030, helping EU countries to meet efficiency goals and consumers to...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical