Barry Sheerman MP hosted the WCRAQ Clean Air Day conference with key experts as a call to arms for MPs to make the correct policy changes.
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More than a number: Air Health meeting addresses need to improve public health as the central matter of tackling air pollution
Professor Sir Stephen Holgate led the Air Health working party discussion on improve lives not numbers, the final WCRAQ meeting of this quarter.
Diesel-gate: Time to address diesel pollution and implement DPF tests at MOT
Diesel pollution has gone unchallenged in the UK and Europe. We must implement diesel particular filter testing at MOT to protect our health.
Why UK government needs to address air pollution with schools, medics and the public
Our Education party explored why we need a holistic government approach to address air pollution with the general public, schools, and NHS.
BM Catalysts takes action on air quality and becomes a WCRAQ member
Emissions specialist joins Commission for improving road air quality.
Green hydrogen: Why we need to clean up transport emissions today, not tomorrow
The Energy, Fuels & Vehicles working party meeting highlighted that transport needs to be cleaned up today, not tomorrow, as the largest emitter of hazardous emissions.
Lawmakers agree new road tolls to incentivise switch to cleaner trucks
European hauliers will slash their costs by driving trucks that reduce carbon and air pollution under a new tolling system agreed by EU lawmakers last night. From 2023, emissions-free trucks will get at least half off road tolls while fossil-fuel trucks will…
Air pollution in Oxford falls by 29% during 2020
Air pollution levels have dropped by 29% over the last year – lowest levels of air pollution since this data was first monitored in 1996.
European Commission sides with citizens in landmark cross-border anti-coal court case
Both the European Commission and the Czech Republic comes out in support of the legal dispute against Poland and its controversial Turow coal mine.
WCRAQ appoints Charlotte Smith as Youth Ambassador to protect children from air pollution
The Westminster Commission for Road Air Quality (WCRAQ) has appointed Charlotte Smith, the 14-year-old founder of EV Thank You, a campaign to improve children’s health worldwide, as its first Youth Ambassador. Charlotte instigates positive behaviour change by thanking drivers of…