Reducing pollution from motor vehicles

National initiatives to reduce the impact of road transport on environment quality, urban amenity and human health.
The strategies for the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts are:

• monitoring in-service petrol vehicle emissions
• improving the emissions performance of the Australian vehicle fleet, by
  • improving fuel quality
  • reducing in-service diesel vehicle emissions through the National Environment Protection (Diesel Vehicle Emissions) Measure
• managing and promoting the Product Stewardship for Oil Program, which provides incentives to increase used oil recycling in the Australian community and ensures the environmentally sustainable management of used engine oil.