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"en.20151028.26.3-805-750"2
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"I welcome the outcome of today’s vote to set stricter air pollutant emissions rules and ceilings, which Member State governments are bound to meet by 2030, with interim targets for 2025.
We want to control a suite of toxic pollutants that accounts for over half a million premature deaths throughout Europe. In Ireland alone, there are over three thousand premature deaths annually, by An Taisce’s estimates. Beyond the human cost, this represents a great loss to the Union in healthcare and social expenditure and productivity, and more than justifies restrictions that will spur innovation and cleaner industrial solutions. Some calculate the loss to be just short of a trillion euro, EU-wide.
Although cattle got off the hook for their belching, we have included under the rules ammonia and methane, mostly arising from agricultural use, given the vast emissions coming from this sector. Ammonia from agricultural sources is a surprisingly significant killer. It is quite regrettable; however, that Fine Gael’s parliamentary party in Europe chose to kill off the inclusion of mercury – which is churned out in dozens of tons every year – calling for a lengthy impact assessment instead. Coal pollution seems to have blinded many policymakers to the incontrovertible scientific evidence about this dangerous neurotoxin."@en1
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