62 News & Press Releases found
Transport and Environment (T&E) News
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First delivery of devastating tar sands arrives in Europe
The first shipment of highly polluting Canadian tar sands oil to Europe is due to arrive in Spain tomorrow (Thursday May 29). Environment groups Friends of the Earth Europe, Transport & Environment and Greenpeace warn that this ...
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Commission lorry CO2 strategy shows urgent need for lorry fuel-efficiency standard
The European Commission today published a lorry CO2 strategy that highlights the urgent need to address stagnant lorry fuel economy and reduce Europe’s growing lorry emissions, but fails to propose decisive action to do so. Europe has ...
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Alternative fuel infrastructure deal is wasted opportunity for e-mobility
The European Parliament and Member States, concluding final negotiations today (March 20, 2014) on the new fuel infrastructure law, failed to set-out a clear pathway for a low-carbon European transport network. Transport & Environment expresses ...
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Waste-based biofuels sector needs smarter EU 2030 package to realize its high potential
Europe has a significant untapped potential for converting wastes from farming, forestry, industry and households to advanced low-carbon biofuels, but only if it sets a strong sustainability framework and ambitious decarbonisation targets for ...
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Flood of tar sands imports equivalent to adding 6 million cars to Europe’s roads – study
New figures released today by the US Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) show that if Europe does not act, its imports of tar sands, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels, would likely skyrocket from about 4,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2012 to over ...
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EU energy ministers reject a bad deal on biofuels but status quo is even worse
European energy ministers today rejected by a blocking minority a political deal to amend the EU biofuels policy. The rejected agreement, struck by the Lithuanian Presidency of the EU, would have limited the use of food-based biofuels that are ...
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EP transport committee vote on alternative fuels strategy
The TRAN committee vote was today - 26 November 2013. The final outcome was 30 members in favour, with 7 members against and no abstentions. Following this vote, the file now moves to trilogue and then back to the EP for a rubber stamp plenary vote. ...
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Decision on the future of EU biofuels delayed until 2015
The Environment Committee of the European Parliament today refused to allow the rapporteur of the biofuels draft law, MEP Corinne Lepage, to start negotiations with member states in a fast second-reading procedure. This procedural vote has important ...
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European Parliament vote leaves biofuels up in the air
The European Parliament voted today to limit the expansion of land-based biofuels, but did not give the rapporteur of the file, MEP Corinne Lepage, a mandate to negotiate the agreement with the EU countries and the European Commission. This creates ...
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Environment Committee steers EU biofuels in a sustainable direction
Environment Committee steers EU biofuels in a sustainable direction There is light at the end of the tunnel after the Parliament’s Environment Committee voted today in favour of full accounting of indirect emissions (ILUC) [1] from biofuels ...
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Vans to become more fuel efficient, but not till after 2020
Transport & Environment (T&E) has expressed disappointment that an EU agreement has failed to adopt a more stringent 2020 target for van fuel economy and CO2 emissions. The deal does, however, recognise that the EU needs stricter fuel ...
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Parliament’s Energy Committee fails to fix EU biofuels policy
Members of the European Parliament’s Energy Committee in a vote today weakened an already modest proposal to fix EU biofuels policy, hampering the transition towards more sustainable biofuels. MEPs voted not only against accounting for biofuel ...
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Carmakers can free wheel to fuel efficiency targets, T&E report shows
Car manufacturers in Europe can free wheel their way to meeting targets to reduce CO2 emissions, Transport & Environment’s 2013 cars and CO2 report says. The report monitors the annual progress made by vehicle manufacturers to reduce fuel ...
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Impact of EU value for tar sands equal to removing up to 7 million cars from Europe’s roads – study
New evidence on the impacts of a proposed EU law devised to cut emissions from diesel and petrol production overturns claims by the oil industry that the law would not save greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A study conducted by two consultancies ...
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MEPs vote to limit the speed of vans, saving fuel and emissions on the run
The Environment Committee of the European Parliament today voted to limit the speed of vans to 120kph. MEPs also voted to introduce stricter new targets for van fuel economy and CO2 emissions in 2025 but rejected tightening a weak 2020 target. ...
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Keeping EU biofuels policy alive costs society €10bn a year, study shows
Cash-strapped EU Member States spent €10bn in 2011, a sum as big as the Cyprus bailout, in support of the biofuels industry, a new study by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) reveals. This public support was ...
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Most Dutch biofuels suppliers cleaner than EU average
Ahead of this Friday’s Ministerial Council meeting, a new study [1] of the Dutch biofuels market published today by CE Delft reveals that a shift to biofuels with low indirect land-use change (ILUC) [2] emissions can significantly improve the ...
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Commission takes a first step in the right direction for alternative fuels in Europe
Sustainable transport group, Transport & Environment (T&E), today welcomed the Commission proposal mandating that member states build up infrastructure for alternative fuels such as electric charging points for road transport and liquefied ...
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Airlines to make up to €1.3bn profit from EU carbon scheme, a new study shows
Flying in the face of industry claims about the unbearable cost [1] of including aviation in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), air carriers will generate up to an estimated €1.3bn in windfall profits in 2012 alone, a new study by ...
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Measures to improve fuel efficiency also reduce vehicle noise, T&E report reveals
After three postponements the Environment Committee of the European Parliament will finally vote next week on noise limits for vehicles. Contrary to industry concerns, a new report published today by Transport & Environment (T&E), ...