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Report: Europe To Exempt SUVs from Tire Noise Regulations

Posted on May 21, 2008

T&E, a European environmental NGO focusing on sustainable transport, reports that the European Commission is set to propose new noise and energy efficiency standards for tires with a blanket exemption for SUVs, according to draft rules seen by the organization.Research presented by the German environment agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA) to the World Health Organization last week showed that traffic noise poses the same risks to health as passive smoking and is responsible for more damage to public health overall than road traffic accidents.T&E published a report in February showing that close to ...

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