33 of the largest cities in the world have levels of particulate matter four times higher than the World Health Organisation’s guidelines of 10 ug/m3. The worst polluted cities in the world are all in Asia, with China, India and…
Category: Air Quality News
Birmingham on track to implement Clean Air Zone from June 2021
Birmingham City Council is pushing ahead with plans to start its charging Clean Air Zone from 1 June 2021, starting to install ANPR cameras to monitor it. The scheme received approval in late 2020 to go live in the summer…
Oxford City Council proposal to introduce UK’s first localised NO2 air pollution target
Oxford City Council become the first local authority to establish a city-wide air pollution target.
The official journal of WCRAQ, Winter 2021, has been published
The third edition of the new thought-leading magazine for the improvement of air quality has now been published. Read your copy today and don’t hesitate to share it with colleagues. Click on the cover to read FVI. What can you read…
Environment Bill delayed again for at least six months
Environment Bill due to return to Parliament today on 26 January has been halted once again to the disappointment of campaigners and groups.
Rosamund Kissi-Debrah campaigns for ‘Ella’s Law’ after air pollution identified as daughter’s cause of death
Ella Kissi-Debrah’s mother advocates for an ‘Ella’s Law’ to effectively tackle air pollution to prevent further suffering.
Bristol to implement Clean Air Zone under new proposal
Bristol City Council to introduce a category D Clean Air Zone (CAZ), Mayor Marvin Rees announces.
Airport pollution proven to affect lung function of those near airports
A trial in the Netherlands has found that young health people who exercised outside an airport in Amsterdam had altered lung and heart function as a result of ultrafine particles.
Soil could be the answer to removing air pollution and even regulating climate change
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.
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’.