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Automotive emissions

August 2026

  • a row of tires

    California becomes first US state to set efficiency rules for replacement tires

    Regulations that would block sale of older tires praised by environmental groups amid rightwing backlash
  • Andy Burnham talks to people in front of a weather display showing extreme heat in south-east England

    Burnham criticised for EV and North Sea approach amid climate crisis

    Cut in electric vehicle sales targets could add millions of tonnes of CO2 to emissions in UK, say green campaigners
  • Christopher Harry on buying an SUV – cartoon

    Saturday Opinion cartoon
    Christopher Harry on buying an SUV – cartoon

    The new Mega Behemoth XL car – available at 0% interest in the environment

July 2026

  • Signs announcing London Ulez zone

    TfL brings case worth up to £1bn against carmakers over Ulez compliance

  • Exhaust cloud from a car as the engine revs

    High court rejects most of ‘dieselgate’ claims brought by 1.6m UK car owners

June 2026

  • A large SUV parked next to a smaller car on a roadside

    ‘Carspreading’ could lead to extra 400 crash deaths a year by 2040, study finds

    Analysis shows cars in Europe have grown longer, taller and wider every year since 2000
  • An Ultra Low Emission Zone sign at Tower Hill in central London

    Deaths linked to London air pollution have fallen 40%, study estimates

    However, Imperial College team also find that pollution has worse health impact than previously understood

    • Air pollution is a fixable problem – just look at how London and New York have cleaned up their acts

      Sadiq Khan and Michael Bloomberg

    • How Europe’s EV makers shrank their product to challenge the bloated SUVs

    • Backlash against ‘short-termist’ UK plans to weaken EV sales targets

May 2026

  • Heavy traffic of the Harbor Freeway in downtown Los Angeles

    The slow lane
    Our cities are choked by cars – here’s how experts would fix them

  • An installation by Greenpeace activists shows an SUV that is seemingly rammed into the pavement in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

    The slow lane
    ‘At a crossroads’: will piling-up crises force Europe to put brakes on SUV culture?

March 2026

  • SUVs in central London

    The Guardian view on SUVs: London’s mayor is right to push back on supersize cars

    Editorial: Huge vehicles are popular with drivers, but their wider impacts on road safety and the environment must be tackled

January 2026

  • Devi Sridhar

    Air pollution kills thousands a year in the UK and abroad – why isn’t there a bigger uproar?

    Devi Sridhar
    Initiatives such as London’s ULEZ can be a model for other cities. But even more could be done to save lives and protect us from deadly toxins in the air, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
  • Dodge pick up truck on the road in Preston

    Number of US-style ‘battering ram’ pickup trucks on UK roads has nearly doubled in a decade

    Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones
  • Fumes coming out of a car’s exhaust pipe.

    Pollutionwatch
    Exhaust pipe position affects how much air pollution we breathe, research finds

    Cars that emit fumes closer to pavement result in pedestrians experiencing 40% more pollution

December 2025

  • Workers on the Volkswagen assembly line for the VW ID 4 electric car in Emden, northern Germany

    EU plans to water down ban on new petrol and diesel cars

  • cars on a freeway

    Trump says he will repeal Biden-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks

October 2025

  • A parking lot filled with large SUVs, as far as the eye can see

    Cardiff becomes first UK council to impose higher parking charges on larger vehicles

  • A line of plug-in hybrid SUVs, with the car in the foreground being charged

    Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds

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