High-Emission Vehicles Banned from Beijing Roads

China Daily:

High-emission or yellow-labeled vehicles will be banned from Beijing roads from July to September to ensure green Olympics and Paralympics as promised by the authorities, environment officials said on Tuesday.

There are currently more than 3.3 million vehicles in the capital. Yellow labels are displayed on the windscreens of more than 300,000 vehicles that fall short of the Euro I emission standard, the lowest of the European emission standards.

"All yellow-labeled vehicles, most of which are freight trucks, will be banned from roads in Beijing from July 1 to Sept 20," said Du Shaozhong, deputy director of the Beijing municipal environmental protection bureau.

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Comments

[sculptor]

China will greewash Beijing so those in the West that are clueless that China's a big polluter will remain so. They wouldn't want people here to wonder if all those goods they buy from Walmart are killing people and are a leading cause of global warming.

[mamacat]

Hopefully China will implement (or has already) laws mandating cleaner exhaust from the next generation of vehicles.

[KillTheMessenger]

We should do the same on US highways. Less than 30mpg... can't drive with less than two passengers on the highway.