Only vehicles with odd-numbered license plates were allowed to travel to Paris on Wednesday because of pollution levels

Pollution: Alternating Traffic in Paris Continues this Wednesday

Faced with persistent air pollution, alternating traffic is renewed this Wednesday in Paris and its suburbs for the second consecutive day. Between 5.30am and midnight, only vehicles whose number on the license plate is odd can circulate as those who carpool or enjoy one of the many exceptions, said the police prefecture of Paris, due […]

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Alternating Traffic restrictions will continue in Paris on Wednesday because of pollution levels

Pollution: Alternating Traffic Renewed for Wednesday in Paris

Alternating traffic established in Paris on Tuesday and 22 towns in the inner suburbs will be repeated on Wednesday due to the persistence of fine particle pollution and nitrogen dioxide, announced the municipality. Wednesday, only vehicles with odd-numbered license plates will be allowed to circulate in the Paris region, those with even plates that could ride […]

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Only vehicles with Even numbers allowed in Paris due to Pollution

Pollution: In Paris, Traffic will Alternate Tuesday

Only vehicles whose number on the license plate is even will able to circulate on Tuesday in Paris and twenty-two cities in the inner suburbs. These traffic restructuring aims to reduce pollution that has settled in recent days on the capital. Public transport will be free on Tuesday and alternating traffic will not apply to […]

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A warning for particles in the air for Normandy on December 1st

Normandy: Alert to the Particles in the Eure and Seine-Maritime

Air Normand warns against exceeding the threshold of suspended particles, for the day Thursday 1st December 2016, for Eure and Seine-Maritime. Vulnerable people (pregnant women, infants and young children, people over 65 years old, asthmatic or suffering from cardiovascular diseases) should limit physical activity and sport as outdoors and indoors. All information is to be found on […]

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Particle pollution cloud forecast for the day of 14 November 2016

North: A Cloud of Particle Pollution Expected for Monday

ENVIRONMENT:  A fine particle pollution will hit all of northern France, from the Paris region to Lille, from Monday … This time it is warned. The agency SFX Nord-Pas-de-Calais issued a newsletter on Sunday on the arrival of an episode of particulate pollution from Monday, 14th November, throughout the North and Pas-de -Calais. According to the air quality […]

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Lille: The air is polluted (but you do not know it) 1

Lille: The air is polluted (but you do not know it)

ENVIRONMENT: Lille again beat a heat record on the 14th September, but particulate pollution accumulates … This is an additional summer day in the Hauts-de-France on Thursday. The opportunity to eat one last time on the terrace? Better to think twice, because the particle pollution levels have followed the rise of the thermometer, particularly in the […]

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The Eiffel Tower disappears behind pollution in Paris

Environment: New Peak of Pollution in Paris

The heat that overwhelms the capital today plunged Paris into an atmospheric pollution ozone stage. This is the seventh day marked by a peak of pollution since the beginning of 2016. According to Airparif, the supervisory body of the air quality in the Paris region, the pollution episode atmospheric ozone, which started today, will last […]

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Anne Hidalgo has launched two appeals against increase diesel emissions

New Diesel EU Limits: Anne Hidalgo to use European justice

The Socialist Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo said on Wednesday she has launched two appeals to the European court to challenge the decision, confirmed on 26th April the European Commission to increase the permitted levels of diesel emissions. The Socialist Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo said on Wednesday launched two appeals to the European court […]

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Air Pollution can now be predicted 24 hours in advance

Pollution: Pays de la Loire can predict air quality 24 hours in advance

ENVIRONMENT: In recent weeks, the association which measures the air quality modelling predictions for the day, can also predict the next day. Useful to protect ourselves from pollution … Change is in the air.  While looking at the weather in the evening we have never been exactly sure what we will see the next day, and thus not […]

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