By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Once again, the the very midst of a surge in covid-19 infections, Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum on decreed a series of illogical and impractical restrictions on the circulation of private vehicles for Wednesday, June 8, due to an environmental contingency. With this order, she sent hundreds of thousands of Mexico City residents scrambling to get
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After an increased Day-without-a-Car program on Wednesday, June 8, limiting the circulation of vehicles in Mexico City and the Valley of Mexico , which included some privately owned cars with 0 or 00 inspection tags, Mexico’s Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (Came) announced late in the afternoon that it would suspend Phase 1 of the Environmental Contingency,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Due to high ozone levels throughout Mexico City and the State of Mexico (EdoMéx), the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (Came) announced late Tuesday, June 7, that Phase 1 of the environmental contingency plan would be implemented for all vehicles with license plates ending in the numbers 3 and 4 for Wednesday, June 8. High temperatures, reaching
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although high temperatures and stagnant air are expected to continue to create high ozone levels in Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx), the Megalopolis Environmental Commission (Came) announced late Wednesday, May 4, that Phase I of the ozone contingency plan would be suspended for Thursday, May 5. As of 10 p.m. Wednesday,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Who’s to blame for the terrible levels of air contamination in Mexico City right now (the worst levels of small-particle pollution in over five years)? You guessed it: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his bumbling band of inept advisers and cabinet members. Yes, high temperatures, stagnant air and a lack of any relief in
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