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Government to face 2016 court action over air quality

ClientEarth asserts that Defra “will be taken back to the High Court early next year” ...

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Clean Air Zones set for five English cities by 2020

Government publishes air quality plans for the UK, including commitment for low emission zones in ...

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High air pollution risk across South East

Defra forecasts moderate and high levels of air pollution across south and east England ‘due ...

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Fall in Defra air quality spending continues

Defra spending directly earmarked for improving UK air quality continued to fall in 2014/15 with ...

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Defra consults on ‘streamlined’ local air quality management

The government is proposing changes to local air quality management (LAQM) guidance and reporting in ...

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Chancellor announces £600m low emission vehicle boost

George Osborne also delays removal of diesel car supplement, but no changes made to car ...

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MP committee calls for diesel scrappage policies

EAC also raises concern that government’s draft air quality plan ‘shifts responsibility’ onto councils

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Stewart confident of UK air quality improvement

Defra minister Rory Stewart says he believes cities will have ‘some of the cleanest air ...

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Respondents cool on ‘unambitious’ Defra air quality plans

London Assembly, London Councils, IAQM and CIWEM publish responses to consultation on draft UK air ...

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UK ‘needs mix’ of vehicle technologies to cut air pollution

Relying solely on electric vehicles to cut pollution will be too expensive and take too ...