Vehicles made before January 1997 banned from streets of French capital from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Friday
Paris has banned old cars from its streets in a war on air pollution that environmentalists hope will also drive dirty vehicles from the centres of other European cities.
Air pollution, in large part caused by fine particulate fuel emissions, kills 48,000 people each year in France, about 400,000 in Europe and around 3.7 million worldwide, data published by France’s public health agency this month showed.
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Source: Guardian Environment