Motorcycles are going electric / the number of unhealthy days is decreasing
Ali Selajgeh in an interview with the political reporter of Moj news agency about the latest situation air pollution In the country’s metropolises, he said: If we refer to the statistics of the air quality index from 2017 to 1402, only one metropolis has an increase in the area of unhealthy air compared to the previous years, and the rest of the cities have a decrease.
He added: This issue is on the serious agenda of the government and the president issued a special order in the meeting of the Supreme Council of Environment.
The vice president stated: According to the resolution of the Supreme Council of Environment, 8 main departments in terms of the budget In the country’s budget, they were obliged to allocate a budget to reduce pollution.
He added: This work is being done in 9 refineries of the country in terms of quality improvement and optimization, which, of course, requires very heavy credits.
Tire wear also causes pollution
Referring to the electrification of cars, the head of the country’s environmental protection organization said: electrifying cars with the aim of reducing pollution is one issue, and tire wear is another issue. Because tire wear also causes air pollution, people should help in this field.
Selajgeh stated: The indicators show that the number of unhealthy days is decreasing.
He also said in the discussion of waste burning at night: environmental officers control this issue day and night so that waste burning does not take place at night, and we ask the municipalities of metropolitan cities, especially south of Tehran, to help us to collect waste burning at night.
We don’t have permission to burn diesel fuel in big cities
Rejecting fuel oil burning in big cities, the vice president said: None of the refineries near the big cities have fuel oil burning, and as a trustee and servant of the people, I say that this has not happened and that fuel burning happens in power plants far from population centers.
Euro 5 fuel supply in metropolitan cities
The head of the Environmental Protection Organization about octane Petrol He said: “Fortunately, Euro 4 gasoline is available at gas stations, and we also distribute Euro 5 gasoline in metropolitan cities, and we follow fuel quality improvement.”
Selajgeh also confirmed the pollution of motorcycles and stated: Due to the high pollution of motorcycles, we are looking for electrification of these engines, which is done with both domestic production and import of electric motorcycles.
He stated that some families face problems in terms of livelihood due to the retirement of motorcycles, and continued: We are giving electric motorcycles to motorcycle owners.