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Posted by sgelmini — 25 June 2015 at 5:18pm
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There's a story on the Guardian website today which has thrown up questions about what happened to the land that we bought some years ago to block plans for a third runway at Heathrow. It claims that the land was sold back to its original owner (which is true, and with good reason) and that we didn't publicise this (which is also true, also with good reason).
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New report shows enormous power of fleet managers over our climate
Wednesday 10th June, London. A new report from analysts CE Delft shows
how corporate fleet managers could save millions of tonnes of CO₂,
and €28 billion a year, with available efficiency measures and clean
technologies.
The statistics in the report imply that
corporate fleet managers have more power over the composition of our atmosphere
than most politicians, or even most oil executives.
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In response Ed Davey's decision to support the German proposal to block lower emissions at the meeting of European Committee of the Council of Ministers, Greenpeace chief scientist Dr Doug Parr said:
“Any claim by the Liberal Democrats that they are a moderating influence on the coalition’s environmental vandalism has been well and truly exposed as total cobblers after Ed Davey supported German proposals that would have seen a gradual reduction in car emissions by 2020 - a policy that the coalition was supporting only three months ago.
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Posted by Hugh Mouser — 4 July 2013 at 6:43pm
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Sign of the times, but car companies are dragging their heels over electric vehicles
I grew up on a diet of TV shows like Knight Rider and The A Team. I saw Ferrari and Mclaren produce faster cars as time went by. I admired how the car industry kept on trying to improve.
But it seems like some carmakers have lost the fun of innovation.
Posted by Hugh Mouser — 27 June 2013 at 6:13pm
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Clean car vote postponed? We're fuming
Posted by Elena Polisano — 18 June 2013 at 4:22pm
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German environment minister Peter Altmaier is keen to keep gas guzzlers on the road
It was 6.30am in Luxembourg and we were all keen to start. We got into our vans ready to launch our final action for cleaner cars in Europe. But this morning it was different. Instead of a handful of national activists calling on a car company to clean up its act, we went big.There were thirty of us from across Europe who came together for the whole day to unveil a banner, placards and hand out flyers telling European governments to stand up to the bullying of Germany and its environment minister Peter Altmaier.
Posted by Elena Polisano — 14 June 2013 at 4:08pm
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Angela has that petrol emotion
Politicians would make terrible magicians. That’s my conclusion after reading a new proposal that sets out how Europe should meet its fuel economy targets for all new cars.
The German government’s proposal is an attempt to con the rest of Europe into playing into the hands of car companies like BMW and Daimler.
Posted by Elena Polisano — 24 May 2013 at 4:36pm
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Of all the shoulders to cry on, it might seem strange to pick the German Chancellor’s. But that’s what the German car association (VDA) did this week when its president Matthias Wissman wrote to her to moan that long-term targets for cleaner cars could strangle the car industry. He asked her to take a strong position against the regulations which are currently being debated in Brussels.
