Carmakers accused of trying to use crisis to avert emissions crackdown

Campaigners describe lobbying of EU to defer impending regulations as shameless

The motor industry has been accused by campaigners of trying to use the coronavirus crisis to avert stricter environmental regulation, after correspondence showed carmakers had lobbied the EU to defer impending laws.

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