An attempt to reverse an environmentally friendly urban transport policy has failed spectacularly in the Swiss city of Basel. An initiative backed by businesses and centre-right parties was not only...
The EU’s proposed new Climate Law is the ‘kick’ that Europe needs to fully decarbonise transport. That is T&E’s response to the draft of a new law that will require all EU countries to be climate...
EU governments considering airline bailouts have been told they must make financial aid conditional on carriers starting to pay tax once conditions improve and taking up green technology.
Sales of electric cars rose 81% in Europe in the final quarter of 2019, new figures show. Electric cars - which include battery electrics and plug-in hybrids - accounted for 4.4% of total new car...
A controversy has broken out in France over a tax exemption that threatens to undermine a new law aimed at reducing demand for palm oil diesel. The exemption is for palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD...
The biggest airline CO2 emitter within Europe, Ryanair, has been reprimanded by an advertising regulator over claims that it was “low CO2” and “Europe’s… lowest emissions airline”. The low-cost...
At a time when getting people out of their cars and onto emissions-free transport is becoming more important, the roads are no safer for cyclists than they were 10 years ago, statistics indicate....
New diesel cars have been discovered emitting huge amounts of cancer-causing ultrafine particles in independent lab tests. Total particle emissions from the Nissan Qashqai and Opel Astra diesels...
Awareness of the pollution caused by Uber and taxi services is growing, according to an opinion survey commissioned by T&E. The survey shows that citizens in the cities where Uber operates most...
New diesel cars may be exposing the public to dangerous levels of particle emissions - more than 1,000 times normal levels - and still pass pollution tests due to a loophole. Independent tests on two...
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