This week in Parliament, the leader of the Westminster Commission for Road Air Quality, Barry Sheerman MP, questioned the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Rachel Maclean, exactly how government are planning to tackle air pollution. Sheerman asked whether the government…
Yesterday, the World Health Organization acknowledged new emerging evidence that the novel coronavirus does spread more widely in the air than previously suggested. Airborne transmission cannot be ruled out in crowded, closed or poorly ventilated areas. Speaking in Geneva this…
Find out how CMS SupaTrak are using their telematics technology to push for air monitoring, with OWL and WCRAQ, in order to highlight the dangers that air pollution poses.
The Financial Times‘ Leslie Hook investigates how the world’s biggest cities are using lockdown to reclaim roads and give more space to cyclists and pedestrians. Coronavirus could accelerate plans to cut transport emissions and curb air pollution. (Produced, filmed and…
Edie questions whether Johnson’s “build build build” policy is really committed to protecting the UK’s natural environment: Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce a multi-billion-pound “New Deal for Britain” that prioritises jobs and infrastructure growth to respond to the economic…
People with COVID-19 who live in US areas with high levels of air pollution are more likely to die from the disease than people who live in less polluted places, according to a new nationwide study from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. The study,…
Clean Air Cops is a unique educational programme created to provide schools with the tools and confidence to engage young people and their parents.
CILT’s Bus & Coach Policy Group has published a paper claiming more people will die from air pollution than Covid-19 unless an alternative to the car changes travel behaviour. Rebuilding the bus market to meet the decarbonising challenge in a…
Air pollution is the largest environmental risk to UK public health. A cross-party group of MPs are to explore whether the COVID-19 pandemic can act as a catalyst for change. Click here to read more
The failure to consider air pollution as a factor in the higher rates of coronavirus deaths among minority ethnic groups is “astonishing” and “wholly irresponsible”…… read more