Air & Climate Newsletter
July 28, 2011
This Week´s Featured News Stories
EU emissions figures show cars are getting heavier again
The European car fleet is getting heavier again, partly because the EU’s carbon dioxide standards are more lenient for heavy cars than for light cars. That is one of the conclusions from new data published by the EU last month. Average CO2 emissions from new cars fell by 3.7% in 2010, but without the rise in overall weight, the reduction would have been around 5%.  The 3.7% decrease leaves the average emissions of new cars at 140 grams per kilometre, which was the original voluntary target for 2008. The car makers’ failure to meet that target led to the EU’s first ...
US lawmakers wade in to aviation emissions row
Members of the House of Representatives are seeking to ban US airlines from taking part in the EU`s emissions trading scheme in a move likely to ratchet up tensions between Brussels and Washington over climate policy.  A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Transportation Committee introduced a bill late on Wednesday that if passed would force the Secretary of Transportation not only to prohibit participation in the scheme, but to "negotiate or take any action necessary" to ensure operators are "not penalised".  The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011 comes ...
Johnson Matthey Emission Control Technologies
A British company with global operations, Johnson Matthey is a world leader in the development and supply of catalytic systems for air pollution control. Catalyst technology from Johnson Matthey helps to control exhaust emissions from mobile and stationary sources of air pollution, including passenger cars and motorcycles, trucks and buses, constructions equipment, as well as power plant and other industrial processes. The technology is sold either direct to vehicle and equipment manufacturers, or on to ends users via dedicated sales agents or distributors selected on the basis of their engineering capabilities and specialist knowledge of user needs.

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