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labourpress:

Lilian Greenwood MP, Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary, responding to reports that UK Ministers were warned about the VW emissions scandal, said:

“Ministers must come clean and admit when they were first told about the diesel emissions scandal. ‎The International Council on Clean Transportation, the body which helped to expose the problem, warned a year ago that dangerously high levels of nitrogen oxide emissions were not confined to America. It is unacceptable that the Government waited this long to take action.

“Over recent days the Department for Transport has been forced to perform a series of screeching ‎u-turns. After initially saying that only the European Commission could conduct an investigation, Patrick McLoughlin has been forced to backtrack, but after this latest revelation there can be little faith in the Department’s response.

“Poor air quality is a growing problem in our towns and cities but the Government is in chaos on this issue, and it is becoming increasingly clear that real leadership was needed on this issue at least a year ago.”

Wouldn’t it be a good idea to actually invest in personal transportation that doesn’t require the extraction of fossil fuels?

(via labourpress)