China has announced aggressive new standards for vehicle fuel in an effort to combat air pollution, its first significant response to the heavy smog that has blanketed many Chinese cities this winter.
Yesterday the state council said that a new, low-sulphur standard for automotive diesel would become mandatory by the end of 2014. A stricter ultra-low sulphur standard for both petrol and diesel will take effect by 2017.
These fuel specifications have for years been a bone of contention between China’s state-owned oil companies, which oppose them on cost grounds, and the ministry of environmental protection, which supports them.
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