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European Parliament Delays Vote on New Emission Limits
The European Parliament agreed today to delay a vote on tougher emission laws for cars until February.
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The European Parliament agreed today to delay a vote on tougher emission laws for cars until February. A vote had been scheduled for next week.
In December the 28-nation assembly’s environmental committee rejected a bid to weaken the proposed new standards, which aim to bring real-world emissions into better alignment with laboratory-based certification test results.
The tighter rules were prompted by European Commission tests last year that showed vehicles which met lab standards for nitrogen oxide emissions released as much as five times the limit under actual driving conditions.
The new law would shrink the gap to 60% by September 2019 and require both results to match by 2020. Opponents have presented an alternative plan that would narrow the gap to 50% by 2020 but allow the discrepancy to continue thereafter.
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