emissions

  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom aiming to slash particulate matter pollution by 70% in a decade

    Eskom aiming to slash particulate matter pollution by 70% in a decade South Africa’s state power utility, stung by reports about the health impacts of emissions from burning coal, said it’s spending billions of dollars to reduce them and has an ambitious target to reduce output of one of its...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Emissions exclusion at Kusile could bring units back online a year earlier — Eskom

    Emissions exclusion at Kusile could bring units back online a year earlier — Eskom South Africa's Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., already named as the world's biggest sulphur dioxide emitter, is seeking approval to release more of the pollutant linked to ailments ranging from asthma to heart attacks...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom's coal power stations could rack up a massive death count before shutting down

    Eskom's coal power stations could rack up a massive death count before shutting down Air pollution from coal-fired power plants run by South Africa’s Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. risks killing 79,500 people from 2025 until they are due to be shut, according to a study submitted to a...
  5. HAL 9000

    Daimler, VW face more recalls over emissions cheating - report

    German transport authorities will next week recall thousands more Daimler and Volkswagen vehicles, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, as the massive emissions cheating scandal that has engulfed the sector for more than two years shows no sign of going away. VW in particular is still...
  6. HAL 9000

    Lawsuit Accuses Ford Of Cheating Diesel Emissions On 500,000 Trucks

    A class action lawsuit was filed against the Ford Motor Company and supplier Bosch on Wednesday alleging that the former installed emissions defeat devices in its diesel F-250 and F-350 trucks, causing them to produce up to 50 times more oxides of nitrogen than allowed by law. This should...
  7. HAL 9000

    New Lawsuit Accuses GM Of Cheating Diesel Emissions Tests On 705,000 Trucks

    http://jalopnik.com/new-lawsuit-accuses-gm-of-cheating-diesel-emissions-tes-1795548486
  8. Nod

    Land Rover Defender dies: Production finally halted by EU rules

    Source: TheRegister More at the link ...
  9. HAL 9000

    Regulator to probe VW SA vehicles

    http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/cars/volkswagen/regulator-to-probe-vw-sa-vehicles-1.1920874#.VgTw21UrJD8
  10. HAL 9000

    Report suggests automakers besides VW cheated emissions too

    Now that Volkswagen has admitted to cheating U.S. emissions testing on its four-cylinder TDI diesel engines, some reports are beginning to scrutinize and question the real-world diesel emissions of other European car brands. Until this point, it's been believed that cars fitted with "urea...
  11. Kevin Lancaster

    Eskom does not have to comply with air emission standards

    Eskom does not have to comply with air emission standards Several companies, including Eskom, have been granted a reprieve from complying with minimum emission standards in terms of air quality laws
  12. M

    Copenhagen and Carbon tax

    A friend of mine is presenting some stuff for an NGO at Copenhagen. I don't know how many times I've heard the stats before, but today, I had a bit of jamais vu. My logic goes something like this: His paper states that some first world country produces x times more CO2 emissions than India...
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