Old trucks should be banned from Sydney and Melbourne to reduce Australians’ exposure to deadly air pollution, according to a newv Grattan Institute report.
Old trucks should be banned from Sydney and Melbourne as part of a comprehensive plan to reduce Australians’ exposure tokill more than 400 Australians and contribute to lung cancer, strokes, heart disease, asthma, pneumonia and type two diabetes, analysis by the Grattan Institute shows.
The report calls for pre-2003 diesel trucks to be banned in Sydney and Melbourne from 2025, to keep the most-polluting trucks away from the most number of people.
But even the new trucks coming into Australia were not as clean as they should be, Ms Terrill said. She argued the country’s pollution standard for trucks was a decade behind major global markets and that Australia should catch up by 2024.Ms Terrill also called on the federal government to rescind “pointless regulations”, such as the requirement that trucks in Australia be 2 per cent narrower than the global standard, which she argued limited the range of less-polluting trucks available.
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