‘European oil companies exploit weak African fuel standards by selling “African quality” fuels /toxic diesel and gasoline with devastating health and environmental impacts across many sub-Saharan states’

  GENEVA. –European oil companies, especially Swiss commodity traders, are exploiting weak African fuel standards by selling toxic diesel and gasoline across the continent, a campaign group said Thursday.A three-year investigation published by Switzerland-based environmental and economic group Public Eye did not accuse oil companies of breaking any laws.But it charged several firms with using an “illegitimate strategy” to boost profits, hawking so-called “African quality” fuels that have had devastating health and environmental impacts across…

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