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After seeing the European Commission’s Energy Directorate reject a proposal to introduce truck tolls based on vehicles’ CO2 emissions, a group of MEPs have written a joint letter to transport commissioner Violeta Bulc requesting that the transport directorate propose the tolls instead. The argument is pretty straightforward: trucks are said to account for about a quarter of European transport CO2 emissions, and while car and light van emissions are quite strictly controlled, trucks are not so. A toll would level ...

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