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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Damian Carrington Environment editor

‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate

A group of people wearing face masks hold signs reading 'expose diesel cheats' and 'diesel makes kids sick'.
The campaign group Mums for Lungs protesting outside the Royal Courts of Justice this year. Photograph: @CrispinHughes/Mums for Lungs/Crispin Hughes

“Little lungs are still paying for Dieselgate every day,” says Jemima Hartshorn, the founder of the Mums for Lungs campaign group. Her own young daughter has suffered serious breathing problems, which at their worst involved the harrowing experience of having to pin her to the floor to administer an inhaler.

It is 10 years since the scandal erupted, exposing cars that pumped out far more toxic fumes on the road than when passing regulatory tests in the lab. But Dieselgate is far from over.

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