ZFE: nearly 3 million of the most polluting vehicles returned to service in case of abandonment of the device

Created to reduce air pollution in large cities, the scheme is perceived as discriminating for the most modest motorists.

In the midst of the crisis of purchasing power, the High Emission Zones (ZFEs), which were imposed by the executive in 2019 to combat air pollution but considered punitive for the inhabitants of peripheral France, have become a symbol, one more, of "territorial apartheid" at work in our country. The RN, always on the lookout for what divides, has dispatched to make it its battlehorse.

Consideration of the bill to simplify the Low Emissions Zones should be discussed in the National Assembly next week. While a large part of the right-wing deputies are in favour of abolishing the scheme, the government will propose an amendment for Paris and Lyon to maintain their EFAs.

The removal of low-emission zones, which will be debated in the National Assembly from 8 April, would again allow the most polluting vehicles in large cities.

Restrictions on the most polluting vehicles are increasingly common, in an attempt to reduce emissions in the face of the advance of climate change. They began in the big cities, but they are spreading and it is becoming necessary to take the environmental label that corresponds to our car in order to access (or not) the center of many cities.

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