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* Denmark - Copenhagen and Frederiksberg are pushing for cleaner air
By reducing deadly diesel exhaust particles
Copenhagen,Denmark -The Copenhagen Post -24 Jan 2007: -- Copenhagen and Frederiksberg's city governments are preparing to go on the offensive against diesel engine exhaust particles, considered to be one of the deadliest forms of air pollution... A new proposal will set the goal of a 20 percent reduction in the release of particle pollution from diesel-fueled vehicles by 2010. The plan is aimed at lorries - the worst offenders - and will required the vehicles to have particle filters installed if they operate within designated 'environmental zones', which would include all of Frederiksberg and most of Copenhagen... The plan requires older lorries to be immediately fitted with the filters and then replaced by new trucks before 2010, at which time all lorries will be required to have the filters... The new law would also be expensive for the trucking industry... 'Besides investing in particle filters and new lorries, we expect huge expenditures on having trucks periodically out of service due to technical problems with the filters,' Ove Holm, chief economist for the Transport Operators Guild of Copenhagen, stated on the organisation's website... Holm believes total expenses for the branch under the new proposal would reach DKK 1 billion by 2010, while the governments of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg have estimated the cost to be less than half that figure...
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