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VW CEO was told about emissions crisis a year before admitting to cheat scandal
2016-03-03 00:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Volkswagens chief executive was told about the companys illegal emissions crisis more than a year before it admitted it was systematically cheating on US regulators tests. The German company admitted on Wednesday that its former CEO Martin Winterkorn was, in May 2014, sent a memo detailing how some VW cars were producing up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide emissions than allowed. In the memo Winterkorn was told about an independent study that found VW cars were producing very high emissions in...
EU not seen increasing emissions targets despite Paris deal: draft
2016-03-01 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: EU regulators will say this week the European Union does not need to set a more ambitious greenhouse gas target until the next decade, a text seen by Reuters shows, even though the Paris climate deal stipulates a preliminary review of goals in 2018. Such a decision would please member state Poland, whose economy relies on coal, but anger environment campaigners, who see the Paris Agreement, agreed in December, as an argument for the European Union to step up its climate action. So far, the EU has...
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Ozone depletion chemicals: Tracking down lingering source of carbon tetrachloride emissions
2016-03-01 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) was once commonly used as a cleaning agent and remains an important compound in chemical industry. CCl4 is responsible for that sickly sweet smell associated with dry cleaning solvents from decades ago. It's a known air toxin and it eats away at the ozone layer--the gas accounts for about 10-15 percent of the ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere today. As a result, production across the globe has been banned for many years for uses that result in CCl4 escaping to...
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Initial results from French NOx emissions testing of 100 diesels show high discrepancies between official and on-the-road results
2016-02-29 16:56:19| Green Car Congress
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EPA Chief: Methane Emissions Substantially Higher Than We Thought
2016-02-29 16:02:00| Waste Age
Environmental Leader The Obama administration says that methane emissions accounted for nearly 10 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions in 2012. read more
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