Maxine Joselow, E&E News reporter Climatewire: Thursday, July 11, 2019 TRANSPORTATION Traffic is seen along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, with the Arc de Triomphe in the background. Paris officials are restricting the use of cars in the city. Charles Platiau/Reuters/Newscom Paris made headlines last week by banning cars from its streets on weekdays.

Dust from car brakes and tyres will still pollute city air even when the vehicle fleet has gone all-electric, a report has warned. Fragments of microplastics from tyres, road surfaces and brakes will also flow into rivers, and ultimately into the sea, government advisers say. Ministers say they want to pass standards to improve tyres

Hammersmith Bridge could remain permanently closed to motorists, a senior Transport for London (TfL) director has revealed. Speaking at New Civil Engineer’s Future of Roads conference, TfL director of project & programme delivery Nick Fairholme revealed that TfL is working up several options for the bridge with Hammersmith & Fulham Council. The bridge has already

2019 has marked a change in public attitudes to climate change driven in part by a huge new global protest movement. In this timely and powerful documentary, reporter Ben Zand gains access to the most important of the protest groups, Extinction Rebellion. He is with them for four months as they build towards “the rebellion”

Facebook) UK Parliament Streamed live on Jul 8, 2019 SUBSCRIBE 162K MPs debate the Violet-Grace’s Law e-petition. The petition calls for life sentences for death by dangerous driving. The debate will be opened by Helen Jones MP, a member of the Petitions Committee. View the petition and the Government response: https://petition.parliament.uk/petiti… Why is this petition

Damian CarringtonTue 28 Feb 2017 10.20 GMT This article is more than 2 years old Public information film unseen for years shows Shell had clear grasp of global warming 26 years ago but has not acted accordingly since, say critics Film warned of climate change ‘at rate faster than at any time since end of

James BridleMon 24 Sep 2018 06.00 BST In Mike Judge’s 2006 comedy, Idiocracy, the participants in an ill-fated cryogenics experiment awake 500 years in the future to discover that due to dysgenic mutation, anti-intellectualism and corporate capitalism the intelligence of the population has fallen to dangerous levels. The president is sponsored by fast-food chain Carl’s

The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives. Gregory H. Shill6:00 AM ET In a country where the laws compel the use of cars, Americans are condemned to lose friends and relatives to traffic violence. My childhood neighbor was a varsity student-athlete, the president of the junior class, and the

Matthew WeaverTue 4 Oct 2016 13.20 BST This article is more than 2 years old Critics of £1bn Silvertown tunnel highlight pollution risk and say mayor of London was against idea during election campaign London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has angered green campaigners by approving a controversial four-lane road tunnel in east London. Critics of the