The UK Government will be in the Supreme Court tomorrow accused of 'dragging its feet' over an EU air pollution law that should be saving tens of thousands of British lives a year, writes James Thornton. Instead of defending its inaction, the Government should make an immediate start on cleaning our filthy air.
… a year, the Government must act now on air pollution James Thornton ClientEarth | 15th April 2015 Comment Health UK Politics Pollution Transport air-pollution-london-cut.jpg The UK Government …
Air pollution from vehicles is killing tens of thousands of people every year in the UK alone, write Jean Lambert, Molly Scott Cato & Keith Taylor, an outrage set into stark focus by VW's 'test cheating'. The EU's response? To relax tests and allow cars to be more polluting - with the full support of the UK government.
… Time to crack down on car pollution - the silent killer with powerful … Taylor | 3rd February 2016 Comment Health Pollution Transport Politics UK EU Law cyclist-mask-cut.jpg Air pollution from vehicles is killing tens of …
Low Emissions Zones have their place in cleaning up the UK's worst air pollution hotspots, writes Richard Howard. But we also need to adopt fiscal measures to encourage a shift away from diesel vehicles, at once delivering cleaner air, increased tax revenues, and lower carbon emissions.
… To clean up air pollution we must dump diesel - and here's how … Exchange | 11th March 2016 Comment Transport Pollution Cities Oil London Finance Politics … their place in cleaning up the UK's worst air pollution hotspots, writes Richard Howard. But …
MEPs vote today on proposals to cut air pollution by setting up an independent EU monitoring body to ensure that a scandal like Dieselgate never happens again, writes Keith Taylor. However fears are growing that Brexit promises the UK a bonfire of environmental laws including those on air pollution. We need a strong, new Clean Air Act now!
… of Dieselgate: time for strong, effective pollution laws Keith Taylor MEP | 4th April 2017 Comment Pollution EU Law Brexit Politics Health … MEPs vote today on proposals to cut air pollution by setting up an independent EU …
The Chancellor's 'sport not sugar' move to tax sugary drinks was extremely welcome, writes Simon Bullock. But we need a similar Treasury approach to protect people from other threats too. So how about tackling the air pollution that's killing tens of thousands of Britons a year?
… Chancellor is right to act on sugar. Next, air pollution! Simon Bullock | 17th March 2016 Comment Health Economics Politics UK Pollution Transport Cycling Food … threats too. So how about tackling the air pollution that's killing tens of thousands of …
Wales should lead the UK in bringing an end to the entire coal industry from opencast mining to highly polluting power stations, writes Gareth Clubb. A new report by Friends of the Earth Cymru shows the Aberthaw plant alone imposes social and environmental costs of nearly £1 billion per year on the country and global climate.
… 2016 Comment Fossil Fuels Coal Mining Pollution Wales UK Climate Change Politics Law … disregarded European limits on nitrogen oxide pollution for years. It is this failure to … defending its decision to allow extraordinary pollution from Aberthaw power station. In …
We need a renewable energy revolution, an end to fracking, no new nuclear power, efficient homes, and the break up of our energy cartels, writes Jeremy Corbyn, All that, and strong protection for wildlife and oceans, no TTIP trade deal with the US, clean air to breathe, and massive investment in public transport. Is there anything not to like?
… Nuclear Renewables Solar Health Transport Pollution … together Cleaner air - tackling the air pollution crisis in our big cities and … independent public inquiry into levels of air pollution. Protecting our ecosystems, wildlife …
Remember when the UK was the 'dirty man of Europe'? What has changed since then, writes Caroline Lucas, is our membership of the EU - which has made us raise our environmental performance on everything from fisheries to air pollution, nature conservation, clean bathing waters and renewable energy. Leave, and it could all go into reverse.
… on everything from fisheries to air pollution, nature conservation, clean bathing … our environment faces - from cross-border pollution, to overfishing in our seas and … to clean up their act - and thus decrease the pollution levels in the seas, which we all …
Environmentalists are near unanimous in believing the UK should remain in the EU, writes Harry Blain. Yet that puts us in the same camp as many of our fiercest enemies - neoliberal governments and corporate lobbyists for fossil fuels, cars and other polluting industries. Meanwhile the EU itself is increasingly undermining its own environmental protections as it pursues 'free trade' agreements around the world. Time for a rethink? You bet!
… how green is the European Union? It's our pollution and we'll choke on it if we want to! … "How dare the EU tell us what do? It's our pollution and we'll choke on it if we want … UK government must clean up dangerous air pollution '. Earlier in the year, the European …
The facts are simple: a new London runway means more planes, more noise, more pollution and more global warming, write David Howarth & Steven Griggs. The 'Heathrow 2.0' initiative's conflation of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable growth' and its avoidance of climate change reek of Trumpian 'alternative facts'.
… airport'? Or alternative facts on planes and pollution? David Howarth University of Essex … runway means more planes, more noise, more pollution and more global warming, write David … contested, with ongoing concerns about noise pollution, air quality and rising carbon …
With the 'Heathrow 13' protestors expecting custodial sentences today for their occupation of a Heathrow runway last July, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP writes that their direct action followed years of official lies and broken promises, and forms part of a long tradition of direct action protests in defence of democracy.
… 24th February 2016 Comment Transport Aviation Pollution Politics Protest UK … Hillingdon - that the levels of noise and air pollution and the loss of homes and indeed … Demolished communities, deadly air pollution, climate change There continue to be …
The truth is often extraordinary - perhaps because it is so rare that we are told it. This disturbing speech by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse shines the bright light of truth on the US's huge, shadow-dwelling climate denial industry.
… urge my colleagues to wake up to what carbon pollution is doing to our atmosphere and … - is as poisonous to our democracy as carbon pollution is to our atmosphere and oceans. …
London Mayor Sadiq Khan promised electors that he would be the 'Greenest Mayor ever'. In spite of his apparent support for a new Thames road crossing in East London and an expanded London City Airport, he still has huge opportunities to make good his pledge. And Green Assembly Members will be working hard to make sure he does.
… Russell | 30th September 2016 Comment Cities Pollution Transport Energy Politics UK … Londoners' lives with aircraft noise and air pollution. In an answer to a question I asked … if built will just create more congestion and pollution. He has a choice - he can continue …
When the UK joined the EU in 1973, it was dubbed the 'dirty man of Europe' thanks to its out of control pollution, writes Craig Bennett. Since then EU laws have forced us to clean up our act. But if we leave, all that may go into the reverse, with terrible impacts on our air, water, health, and wildlife.
… 25th January 2016 Comment EU UK Law Politics Pollution Conservation london-pollution-cut.jpg When the UK joined the EU in … man of Europe' thanks to its out of control pollution, writes Craig Bennett. Since then EU …
In a potentially devastating blow to the Earth's climate, President Trump's new executive order ends the Interior Department's moratorium on coal mining on public land and begins a repeal of the landmark Clean Power Plan, writes Trip Van Noppen. But this reckless move will not pass unchallenged - the Supreme Court has ruled that the EPA must tackle climate pollution, and clean energy policies can still be defended and advanced at state level.
… has ruled that the EPA must tackle climate pollution, and clean energy policies can still … to protect the public from dangerous climate pollution that threatens our economy, security …
Buried in the minutes of an obscure new quango is evidence of vast corporate capture of the UK government, writes Christine Berry. The order of the day is to strip away business regulation without regard to the public costs - so long as companies save money.
… irresponsibility back on the agenda. Air pollution causes around 60,000 deaths a year, … can be directly attributed to the extra pollution from test-cheating VW cars. It's now …
Britain has a huge role in effecting the global energy transition to renewables, new shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy told the Labour Party Conference. But that will mean a complete reversal of Tory policies to attack wind and solar, lock us into polluting fossil fuels and overpriced nuclear power, and maintain 'big six' profits at consumers' expense.
… people here and across the world. But the pollution caused by our existing energy system … citizens urgently need an end to chronic air-pollution. In India, the government is …
Prospects for a global climate deal under the UN are receding fast, writes Assaad Razzouk, as the Green Climate Fund is short-changed by donor nations. But there's still plenty to hope for with a private sector that's stepping up to the mark, and fast-growing decentralised climate action.
… developed world, responsible for most of the pollution since industrialization, will fund a … in response to abject air and water pollution and chemical contamination; and also … to deliver a strong and rising price on pollution. There is no longer any viable …
It's time for UK citizens to #takebackREALcontrol by challenging the anti-democratic powers that control our country, our economy and our lives, retiring Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett told her party conference this weekend in this barnstorming speech. And that's a challenge only the Greens are prepared to take on.
… 2016 Comment Politics UK Climate Change Pollution Oceans Transport Society Green … limits, on the living wage, on taking air pollution seriously. And we've made progress …
Fracking has no social licence in the UK, will contribute little to the economy, will have a huge adverse impact on other sectors, will be a disaster to climate and the environment, and won't even improve energy security, write Peter Strachan and Alex Russell. Do we really want to see 16,000 or more shale gas wells drilled in the British countryside? Let's FraXit now!
… 2016 Comment Fracking Energy Fossil Fuels Pollution Politics UK England Scotland … crime rates, and lingering contamination and pollution." Stress Test 3: Fracking is toxic …
The NHS is one of our greatest institutions and we must defend it to the hilt, writes Natalie Bennett. But to build the healthy society we all want and deserve, we need joined up policies across the policy spectrum, valuing human wellbeing above crude economic growth.
… Health Politics UK Transport Green Economy Pollution Cities family-cycling-cut.jpg The … Evening Standard talking about London's air pollution crisis. An attendee tweeted me … of London 8% of deaths are linked to air pollution. Around the country, that's 29,000 …
Little publicised government plans to 'reform' court costs are intended to foreclose access to environmental justice for all but the wealthiest individuals and communities, writes Paul Mobbs. Meanwhile cuts to agencies and regulators will make it ever harder for them to do their jobs - making public participation in environmental protection all the more important.
… 2015 Comment Politics Law Natural World Pollution UK EU Regulation london-pollution-cut.jpg Little publicised government …
They tried to influence government - but that's not working any more, writes John Vidal. So Friends of the Earth's new boss is taking a more radical approach rooted in community activism. And as he prepares for a storm of protest over fracking and cuts to wind and solar, he's ready to take on George Osborne in an 'ideological war' for the future of Britain.
… people it's much more than that. It's an air pollution and a health issue because of the … my immediate concern would be noise and air pollution and the threat to water. I totally … or inner-city communities to monitor air pollution, he says. "We have missed the health …
Liberal environmentalism represents a dangerous delusion, writes Scott Parkin - that 'playing nice' with Earth-destroying corporations and politicians can yield results worth having. Radical change on climate will only result from bold, confrontational direct actions against the fossil fuel industries and their apologists.
… seeking clean and just solutions to pollution and exploitation. In 1999, the North … an environment so toxic for the climate pollution industry, its executives, its …