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LABOUR demanded yesterday that the government “come clean” on when it became aware of the Volkswagen emissions scandal, claiming its response was “unacceptable.”
Global furore erupted this week after the German car giant admitted that 11 million vehicles had been fitted with software which duped US testers into believing they met environmental standards.
The US Environmental Protection Agency said that almost half a million 2009-15 models featured software that switched the engine to a cleaner mode when undergoing official emissions testing.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
