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Emissions of Air Pollutants down in EU-27

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Emissions of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), a seriously health-damaging pollutant, have decreased by 2% compared to the previous year and by about 12% since the year 2000. Energy use by households (the burning of wood, gas, coal etc) is the most important source of PM 2.5

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. excluding coal power in china.