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MPs slam ministers over aviation pollution

The government attempted to conceal the scale of the environmental pollution which will result from allowing air travel to triple, a committee of MPs said yesterday.

The Department for Transport tried to "massage down" the figures but still conceded that a third of all greenhouse gas emissions would come from aviation by 2050.

The Commons environmental audit committee described the DfT's submission as "superficial and evasive".

Published: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 07:56:08 GMT+01

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