Local councils offered £6m to improve air quality
The latest round of grants will help councils to continue to develop and implement measures to…
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Nearly two-thirds of Londoners back ban on wood burners
Poll shows that across the UK, half of the people support a wood burner ban
Wood burning stoves blamed for massive increase in UK’s toxic air pollution
Emissions of PM2.5 from domestic wood burning increased by 124% between 2011 and 2021,…
Local councils invited to bid for £7m pot to improve air quality
The Air Quality Grant will help councils develop and implement measures that benefit schools,…
Veolia launches its first renewable-fuelled fleet
The fleet will be entirely powered by renewable hydrotreated vegetable oil
‘Nearly 77k ULEZ non-compliant cars were driven every day in London’
Almost 92% of vehicles driven into the zone in the first month of ULEZ were compliant,…
Government urged to ban wood-burning stoves by 2027
Despite having more than 19,000 complaints about toxic wood smoke in the last six years, local…
Drax’s Selby plant ‘is the UK’s biggest CO2 emitter’
New research finds that the power station is the third-largest CO2 emitter when compared with…
WHO announces new global air quality guidelines
The organisation lowered its guideline levels for two air pollutants, fine particulate matter…
‘Five out of 20 most air polluted cities in Europe are in the UK’
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, London, Dundee, Edinburgh, Leeds and Slough are among the cities with the…
