The Damage Lobbyists Do To Public Health - TruePublica
By Graham Vanbergen
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“We need to fight against lobbyists”, Slovenian Euro-commissioner
Janez Potočnik stated resolutely three years ago, which was labelled
“the year of air quality” by the EU. He was addressing
a Brussels group of Euro-parliamentarians, European ministers and civic
organizations. Potočnik was quite rightly being overtly
assertive concerning clean air. He knew what the hard data from his own
statistics authority was saying.
“Air pollution is the number one environmental cause of
premature death in the EU, responsible for ten times the toll of road
traffic accidents”, wrote the environment department.
