Pollution

• City leaders call on PM to take action on air pollution

  Leaders of the UK’s major cities have joined forces to urge Theresa May to take ‘tough and urgent’ action to deal with air pollution.

  

• Council proposes 10-point plan to tackle air pollution

  Oxford City Council has called on the Government to adopt a 10-point plan to tackle high air pollution levels which contribute to 40,000 deaths every year.

  

• Whitehall publishes plan to boost take-up of ‘ultra low emission cars’

  The Government today announced that it wants at least half of new cars to be ultra low emission by 2030 in an effort to tackle air pollution.

  

• Millions of children exposed to ‘toxic’ air pollution, charity warns

  One in three children in the UK are growing up in areas with dangerous levels of air pollution, new research by Unicef has revealed.

  

• Glasgow set for Scotland’s first low emission zone

  Glasgow is set to become the first city in Scotland to reduce air pollution by imposing a low emission zone.

  

• Car pollution costs health services £6bn a year, study reveals

  Pollution from cars and vans costs £6bn per year in ‘health damages’, new research has revealed.

  

• Khan launches electric vehicle task force

  Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has launched a taskforce to boost the infrastructure needed to support electric vehicles in the capital.

  

• Khan announces £1m school air quality fund

  The mayor of London yesterday announced a £1m fund to help protect pupils attending schools in the most polluted areas of the capital.

  

• Whitehall launches tool to measure air pollution

  The Government’s public health body has launched a new tool to help councils calculate the potential costs of air pollution.

  

• Council chiefs call for ‘sufficient’ funding to implement clean air strategy

  Local authority leaders have warned new air quality plans can only be successful if they are supported by ‘local flexibility and sufficient funding’.