Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 18, 2019
The percentage of the EU-28 urban population exposed to O 3 levels exceeding the WHO AQG value was 96% in 2017—showing scarcely any fluctuation since 2000. Road transport, power plants, industry, agriculture and households are the main sources of air pollutants. in Europe have been reduced by about half a million since 1990.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. produced fuels was further reduced by an accelerated shift away from coal, which in 2020 was down to 11 percent of primary supply, from 18 percent in 2000. Certification of the €9.5
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2009
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. In 2007 the top polluting sources in the EU-27 were fuel combustion in households, passenger cars, heavy duty vehicles, and in power plants.
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