Air quality

Help protect us from pollution

Wed 15th Feb 12 — Chris

chemicals pouring from a pipe into a stream

Photo: Robert Brook, Science Photo Library

The Cabinet Minister, Oliver Letwin, is considering scrapping all green safeguards and replacing them with a single 50-page document.

This would mean our protection from pollution could be dangerously simplified. He is consulting on scrapping Laws on:

Appeal against air pollution ruling

Wed 11th Jan 12 — Chris

Houses with smoke rising from Tremorfa Steelworks behind them

Tremofa Steelworks. Photo: Chris Brown, Cardiff Friends of the Earth

2015 air quality breeches

Wed 21st Dec 11 — Chris

Houses with steelworks issuing smoke behind

Tremofa Steelworks. Photo: Chris Brown, Cardiff Friends of the Earth

Environmental lawyers ClientEarth took the Government to court for not tackling high levels of air pollution in the UK.

Air pollution health risks

Sun 20th Nov 11 — Chris

Smoke coming from a car exhaust

There are many health risks associated with air pollution:

Air quality in Cardiff worse

Mon 9th Aug 10 — Chris

Traffic at junction of Newport Road and City Road, Cardiff

Photo: Chris Brown, Cardiff Friends of the Earth

Cardiff Council is about to declare a third Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) at Stephenson Court, close to the Newport Road and City Road junction.

Pollution caused by traffic in this area is higher than the legal maximum. There are four main causes for this:

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