Category: Air pollution

Tory candidate for London mayor has Trumpian attitude to climate, says Khan

London mayor expected to criticise Susan Hall in speech launching panels on school roofsSadiq Khan will accuse his Conservative rival in the race to be London’s next mayor of being “Trumpian” over the climate...

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UK ‘used to be a leader on climate’, lament European lawmakers

MEPs react to ‘tragic’ findings revealing UK falling behind EU in key environmental policies since BrexitBrexit divergence from EU destroying UK’s environmental protectionsNorthern Ireland ‘dirty corner...

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Brexit divergence from EU destroying UK’s vital environmental protections

Exclusive: Britain is falling behind the bloc on almost every area of green regulation, analysis revealsNorthern Ireland ‘dirty corner of Europe due to lack of governance’Explainer: UK environmental protections...

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Great Ormond Street to look at home air pollution when diagnosing illnesses

Pioneering initiative to consider children’s addresses after coroner ruled air pollution a factor in death of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, nineDoctors at Great Ormond Street are being encouraged to consider air pollution levels...

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Air pollution from fossil fuels ‘kills 5 million people a year’

Of more than 8 million deaths worldwide from outdoor air pollution, 61% linked to fossil fuels, finds studyAir pollution from fossil fuel use is killing 5 million people worldwide every year, a death toll much higher than...

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Sadiq Khan says hundreds of thousands spent on anti-Ulez Twitter manipulation

Mayor of London expected to tell social media firms of campaign and urge them to ‘bear down on the attempts to distort truth’Sadiq Khan is expected to claim that “hundreds of thousands of dollars” were...

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Ignoring call to halt new airports would be ‘electoral carnage’, Sunak warned

Campaigners speak out amid suggestion government could reject Climate Change Committee’s advice Rishi Sunak faces “electoral carnage” if the government rejects its climate advisers’ recommendations on...

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Foul fumes and sewage spills in Tory stronghold of Michael Gove

Aggrieved residents tell of issues in constituency of housing secretary planning to rip up pollution lawsWhile Michael Gove was deciding to weaken pollution laws for new housing developments this week, his own constituency was...

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Clean air ‘a right not a privilege’, says London mayor as Ulez is expanded

Sadiq Khan defends expansion of ultra-low emission zone as government continues to criticise itClean air is “a right not a privilege”, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has said as the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez)...

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