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EU law will force worst polluting cars off the road - by Ben Webster
Car manufacturers will be forced to produce smaller, more fuel-efficient models under European Commission proposals to be published next month. They may have to withdraw some of their most polluting cars, including 4x4s, people carriers and large saloons, to comply with strict, compulsory targets to reduce environmental damage.
Three quarters of leading car brands are failing to reduce emissions at the rate they agreed under voluntary commitments signed in 1998 and 1999. Carbon dioxide emissions from road transport have risen by 22 per cent in Europe since 1990 and last year accounted for more than 20 per cent of the total emissions of the greenhouse gas.
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