France slapped with court order to clean up air pollution

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Conseil d'État, France's highest legal authority, orders French government to produce a plan to clean up nation's air by March 31 2018

France's supreme legal authority has ordered the French government to address the nation's poor air quality in a landmark court case brought by Friends of the Earth France with the support of environmental...

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