It’s early July in Canada, and the country’s early record wildfire season has already choked, irritated and worsened the health of millions of people.
“We're asking the federal government to get involved in cleaning up one of the most harmful forms of air pollution.” “The new standards are pretty darn good. And they will be super helpful for our grandchildren. But thousands and thousands of people are going to die between now and then,” said Collins. “That's totally unacceptable. Like you have got to do something in the interim.”
And a study carried out at Vancouver General Hospital and published earlier this year found causal evidence that exposure to diluted diesel exhaust leads to declines in cognitive function. End grandfathered loophole for old trucks, says petition The petition to the commissioner — an independent auditor of federal climate and environmental policy — calls on the federal government to establish a national near-road air quality monitoring network. It also asks the government to launch an investment stream to help municipalities create low-emission corridors like those that prohibit or impose fees for high-polluting vehicles across hundreds of cities in Europe and Asia.
According to Earle, it goes back to a failed U.S. policy under former President George W. Bush that pushed for emission controls without adequate technology in place. Get them off the road, says industry head Where Earle disagrees is what should be done to reign in the all the old heavy-polluting vehicles.