Soil bacteria can play a key role in the removal of air pollution as well as the regulation of climate change, a recent study published in the Nature Microbiology journal has found.
Year: 2021
Scottish Clean Air Plan does not go far enough, charities speak out
Charities including Friends of the Earth Scotland, the British Heart Foundation, and the British Lung Foundation have all labelled the Cleaner Air for Scotland plan as a ‘huge missed opportunity’.
Welsh Government release White Paper on impact of air quality over lockdowns
The Welsh Government today published a report on its plans for a Clean Air (Wales) Bill to protect human health and ecosystems from air pollution.
Coventry and Oxford first cities to trial all-electric bus cities
Coventry and Oxford are both developing proposals to become the first areas of the UK to switch an entire town or city’s bus fleet to electric vehicles.
Newcastle City Council e-scooter trial on track to be launched in 2021
Tyneside is set to trial hundreds of electric scooters over 12 months in a bid to get people out from their cars, backed by the council.
ClientEarth Business Update
December 2020: ClientEarth dwell on the continued efforts to fight Covid-19 and the encouraging Ten Point Plan government has committed for a Green Industrial Revolution.
Wood burners should come with a health warning, study suggests
Wood burners have been found to triple levels of harmful indoor pollution, and should not be used around the vulnerable, scientists determine. People who load wood into a wood burner are exposed to twice as much pollution than those who…
Toxic danger from wood burning and tyre particles
Swiss analysis of different sources of air pollution revealed poor air quality is the fourth biggest risk factor for early death Globally, breathing polluted air has been identified as the fourth largest risk factor for premature death. The real health…
A look back at 2020
In spite of all its difficulties, 2020 has been an instrumental year for the Westminster Commission for Road Air Quality. Not only have we officially launched the Commission but brought together six excellent chairs to lead our working parties: Air…