While EU directives on ambient air quality have established common European standards and information exchange, there is much to be done to improve their scope and significantly reduce the 400,000 or so premature deaths a year caused by air pollution, said MEPs on the European Parliament’s environment and public health committee on Thursday 4 March.
By 43 votes (33 against, 3 abstentions), it adopted the amended own-initiative report by Javi López (S&D, Spain) on the implementation of...