Green Councillor for Willesborough Liz Wright criticises the government’s high-handed approach to politics, as it purchases 27 hectares of agricultural land in Ashford for the development...
“It is inexcusable to try and find out why the BAME community is adversely affected by Covid-19 and not consider the relationship between Covid-19 and air pollution.” Growing calls have b...
“Bailouts must not allow the aviation sector to return to business as usual after Covid-19 has been defeated”. An open letter coordinated by Stay Grounded calls for governments around the...
Diego Pedraza Lahoz, activist at campaign group Stay Grounded, explains the environmental and social arguments for the degrowth of the aviation industry.
“If we want to leave a healthy planet for future generations, we simply can't allow a third runway to go ahead.” Jenny Bates, campaigner at Friends of the Earth, explains the environmenta...
“Consulting the public on a proposal to charge private cars would have been the ideal opportunity to ask how people would tackle this public health crisis.” Sheffield’s clean air zone pro...
“It is time for the Swedish climate movement to level up the resistance and make clear that airport expansions are not supported by the people.” With arguments against airport expansion g...
The government’s Environmental Bill update, released on Tuesday (23 July), included a status report on the World Health Organisation (WHO) air quality guidelines. With the report concludi...
Campaigners have been protesting outside London’s City Hall today (20 June) against plans to press ahead with the Silvertown Tunnel project, a new road tunnel linking Greenwich to the nor...
CO2 emissions are the biggest contributor to global warming. NO2 emissions make our air toxic to breathe. But solutions to tackle pollution often neglect one while tackling the other. Cle...
