This week, Bath became the first English city outside London to introduce charges for the highest polluting vehicles. Commercial vehicles, such as buses and lorries, that do not meet the required emission standards will now have to pay a daily…
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£1.5 million investment into air quality monitoring in London
The Mayor of London and Michael R. Bloomberg have jointly invested £1.5 million into running a sensor network across hospitals, schools and other priority locations. The combined investment of £779,000 from Sadiq Khan and £720,000 from Bloomberg Philanthropies is intended…
Cambridge to use AI technology in effort to ease traffic flow and reduce air pollution
Cambridge will be trialling a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) traffic signal control to cut congestion and minimise emissions at Cambridge’s busiest junctions. This new project has been funded by the Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) and uses technology to investigate the…
Incinerating plastic to generate energy will place net-zero out of reach
We must remove plastics from waste sent to incinerators to reduce carbon impact. By 2035, plastics will contribute to increased air pollution levels to a greater extent than landfill, reveals a report by Eunomia, commissioned by ClientEarth.
Air quality update from ClientEarth
ClientEarth’s Dominic Phinn has published his monthly air quality update. Read his comprehensive analysis of the latest developments on air quality.
Government must extend its tree planting scheme to existing streets, calls RTPI
The Government’s plan to line new developments with trees should also be extended to include existing communities, the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has said. While the RTPI has welcomed the government’s initiative to ensure all new developments have access…
Electric vehicles are better than combustion engines for air pollution.
With the rise of the electric vehicle, misconceptions have arrived, including the fear that non-tailpipe emissions are greater than petrol and diesel cars. Harmful emissions directly released from the tailpipes of diesel and petrol cars have created countless air quality…
UK air pollution breached air pollution limits for a decade, EU court rules
The EU’s top court confirmed that the UK ‘systematically and persistently’ failed to take action on toxic levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution, which remain illegally high in 75 per cent of urban areas. Following years of warning from the European…
New UK scheme for pre-bookable charge spaces for EVs
EVBox has partnered with online parking platform YourParkingSpace to offer electric vehicle drivers a pre-bookable park and charging points across the UK. After a successful trial at the Holiday Inn Express in Bicester, the new project will roll out charging…
Fossil fuel cars make 300 times more waste than EVs
Fossil fuel cars waste hundreds of times more raw material than electric counterparts, according to a study by Transport & Environment. This reaffirms that the move away from petrol and diesel cars and toward electric will bring a spectrum of…