{"id":7192,"date":"2018-03-01T07:35:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T07:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7192"},"modified":"2018-03-01T07:35:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T07:35:51","slug":"mrs-ms-dirty-diesels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/03\/01\/mrs-ms-dirty-diesels\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs M's dirty diesels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs M had her day in the\u00a0highest German federal administrative court last week over the great emission scandal. \u00a0Like Macavity, she wasn't there in person, of course, but her policies were \u2013 and they lost.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that German cities now have approval to ban diesel cars that don't meet the recently introduced\u00a0<em>Euro 6<\/em> standards. \u00a0Although the\u00a0court said that any curbs should be introduced gradually, The Times reports that\u00a0Hamburg has announced a ban from May 2018. \u00a0And what will poor Stuttgart \u2013 one the worst cities for Nix pollution \u2013 now do, given that it's the location of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. \u00a0Oh, the angst ...<\/p>\n<p>This leaves many of Germany's 15 million diesel owners \u2013 who took manufacturers and government reassurances at face value \u2013 in a spot, and Mrs M fears a revolt to add to her mounting woes. \u00a0Barbara Hendricks, environment minister, has said that bans could still be avoided if carmakers agreed to pay to upgrade the exhaust-cleaning systems of older diesels. \u00a0This was, of course, just a joke but no one's laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the UK, the government blithely ignores our own court rulings over clean air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs M had her day in the\u00a0highest German federal administrative court last week over the great emission scandal. \u00a0Like Macavity, she wasn't there in person, of course, but her policies were \u2013 and they lost. The result is that German...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}