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一 |     STOCKHOLM -- A ban on gasoline and diesel-fueled cars from a commercial district of Stockholm's downtown in 2025 will be the first for a European capital, a city official said Thursday.The ban will take effect in a 20-block area of shops, pedestrian walkways and a few homes in order to curb pollution, reduce noise and encourage use of electric vehicles said Lars Strömgren, the city council member for the Greens who's in charge of the Swedish capital's transportation. Many European capitals have restrictions on gasoline and diesel cars, but Strömgren says Stockholm’s complete ban would be a first. “We need to eliminate the harmful exhaust gases from (gasoline) and diesel cars. That’s why we are introducing the most ambitious low-emission zone to date,” Strömgren told The Associated Press. The idea is to create an "environmental zone” where only electric vehicles will be allowed. There will be some exceptions such as for emergency vehicles and transportation for the disabled.In its budget for 2024, the left-leaning, environmentally-focused city council on Tuesday unveiled the plan for the target area just north of the city’s famed Old Town. The municipal government controls a majority in the council, so the vote set for Nov. 23 is expected to be a formality. “We are pretty proud, I must say,” Strömgren said, adding that gradual expansion of the environmental zone would be decided in the first half of 2025.One of the city’s main cab companies, Taxi Stockholm, said its transition to emission-free vehicles is moving at a fast pace. The company’s acting chief executive Pernilla Samuelsson said it's emission-free vehicles now make up 30% of its fleet - almost seven times more than last year. “In other words, the transition is going fast and it is already being driven forward by the industry,” Samuelson said.Some aren't convinced things will go smoothly. Nike Örbrink from the opposition Christian Democrats told the Aftonbladet newspaper that some are concerned the plan would hurt businesses and the hotel industry.Other European capitals harbor similar ambitions. The Dutch capital, Amsterdam, is aiming for all transport in the city, including automobiles, to be emissions-free by 2030.The mayor of Paris wanted to ban all diesel cars before next year’s Olympics, and gasoline cars by 2030, but has run up against resistance.Currently, any diesel cars built before 2006 and gasoline cars built before 1997 are banned in Paris and 77 surrounding towns for 12 hours a day on weekdays. The ban will expand in 2025 for diesel cars built before 2011 and pre-2006 gasoline vehicles.___Jan Olsen reported from Copenhagen, Denmark. AP writers Mike Corder in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Angela Charlton in Paris, France contributed.。    New Zealand is perfectly fine with you pooping and peeing in public, as long as you make sure you aren’t being watched. But more restrictions on doing your business outdoors may be coming to the island nation soon.,Freedom Camping is camping on public land without paying a fee and is an activity quickly growing in popularity in New Zealand. In 2019, the year before the country shut down tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 245,000 freedom campers enjoyed New Zealand’s famous landscapes while “freedom camping.” Of those, only 91,000 were Kiwis, indicating freedom camping is becoming a major tourist attraction for the small country.,However, it is also causing problems, something the Responsible Campers Association (RCA) wants to fix by adding more regulations on where freedom campers do their personal business and what they do with it after they are done.,'Crappiest Fountain Ever': UK Envoy's Husband Slashes Controversial New Zealand Landmark30 May, 10:23 GMT,The association wants new rules mandating that excrement must be buried at least 15cm (5.9 inches) and must be done at least 15 meters (49.2 feet) away from the nearest waterway.,The plea comes after multiple localities banned freedom campers from popular destinations because of a perceived increase in human waste and toilet paper being left at sites around the country. The issue became so heated that New Zealand’s tourism minister Stuart Nash told Radio New Zealand that freedom campers “pull over to the side of the road and … s*** in our waterways.”,The spokesperson for the RCA, Bob Osborne, says that blaming freedom campers is unfair. “There is no evidence linking any specific group to this undesirable practice which affects travelers all over New Zealand,” he said.,While the RCA advocates for a more permanent solution of more public restrooms, Osborne says that in the meantime, mitigation of the worst side effects of public defecation can be a solution, namely burying excrement and toilet paper and keeping it out of water sources. The association also stresses that campers should not be punished for the actions of a few bad apples, and that bad behavior should be punished, not camping itself.,Technically, public defecation is an offense in New Zealand that can result in a $200 fine, but that fine will be waived if the offender can show they had reason to believe no one could see them doing their business. Nash will be introducing new regulations to parliament later this year, including harsher fines for bad behavior and restrictions on where freedom campers can park.,With COVID-19 restrictions on tourism being lifted in the country, 2022 is expected to be a big year for freedom camping in New Zealand. With unburied defecation still allowed under law, campers are advised to watch where they step.。

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