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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Peter Walker, Adam Barnett and Rich Collett-White

Lobbyist opposed to UK petrol cars ban is director of fuel additive firm

A car exhaust
The Ultimum5 website says it reduces nitrogen oxides emissions by between 22% and 94%, and particulate matter by 25% to 100%. Photograph: Wolfgang Zwanzger/Alamy

A lobbyist who has worked with Conservative MPs to argue that the development of as yet unproven fuel additives means it is unnecessary to phase out petrol and diesel engines is the director of a firm developing such products, it has emerged.

Howard Cox, who runs the FairFuelUK campaign, is heavily involved with the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on fair fuel, which recommended last year that ministers urgently look at fuel additives, saying these reduced emissions by more than 50%.

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