Pollution
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Letters: The government’s current air-quality plan gives low-emission zones to just five other English cities, despite many others being affected by harmful pollution
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The Clean Air Act is 60 years old. But as long as we prioritise the convenience of rich motorists, pollution will continue to kill
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Authorities are trying to reduce pollution in the capital but confused policy-making and rising car ownership are reducing the city to poisonous gridlock
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Notebook An 81-year-old as shadow leader of the house? Hear hear
Patrick BarkhamI hope Paul Flynn’s appointment to the shadow front bench ushers in new thinking in a world where youth can be prized over experience -
YouGov research shows 76% want to bring their cities in line with European limits on air pollution
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Vehicles made before January 1997 banned from streets of French capital from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Friday
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A post-Brexit Britain could choose whether to adopt new pollution limits to cut emissions of five key pollutants, including NOx and PM2.5
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Westminster, Tower Hamlets and Southwark have highest number of secondaries in breach of legal limits of NO2, new research for the mayor reveals
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Taiwanese firm Formosa Plastics that owns the plant says it will pay $500m towards clean up and compensation
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Money raised should be spent on improving public transport, cycling and walking, advise researchers
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Climate Change Committee warns of rising transport pollution, failed action on buildings emissions and says leaving the EU throws some policies into doubt
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ENDS report: Defra and the Welsh government are likely to have to pay European commission’s legal costs for breaching air pollution rules at Aberthaw power station
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Report is the first to examine the impact of artificial night-lighting on the seasonal behaviour of plants on a national scale
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The overall awards winners have been announced in the 2016 Atkins Ciwem environmental photographer of the year competition, an annual international showcase for thought-provoking photography and video that tackles a wide range of environmental themes
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Energy authority says governments must take responsibility, and investment would pay for itself in health benefits
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How can we make Brexit work for the environment?
Craig BennettCraig Bennett: Leaving the EU puts about 70% of UK environmental safeguards at risk. But Brexit is not a mandate to make us the dirty man of Europe again – we have to make it work for the environment, from the grassroots up
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From the ‘red-tape’ slashing desires of the Brexiters to the judgment of green professionals, all indications are for weaker environmental protections
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After officer’s asbestos-linked death, police seek people who helped in aftermath of IRA attack aimed at Margaret Thatcher
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If tests of the 100 metre-long barrier that collects rubbish on the sea’s surface are successful, it could be deployed at a larger scale in the ‘great Pacific garbage patch’
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Our new alliance unites 600m city dwellers in fight against climate change
Michael Bloomberg and Maroš ŠefčovičCities are huge carbon emitters but are ideally placed to tackle climate change. Michael Bloomberg on how the Global Covenant can give them the tools to do so -
Queensland government’s $7m purchase aims to cut back on sediment flowing on to the reef, where it can smother coral and prevent its recovery from bleaching
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A Chinese government campaign asks the public to hunt down polluted waterways that can then be mapped and cleaned up
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Grocery chain agrees to reduce leakage of hydrochlorofluorocarbons and pay $500,000 fine after US officials claim it did not promptly repair refrigerators
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How Brexit could damage our health
Christopher BirtWe would lose drug research and health service funding as well as free treatment in Europe, and we’d have no external arbiters of food, air and water quality. This is dangerous -
Organisers say low-cost vehicle emits no noise or fumes, although its maximum speed is unlikely to impress Top Gear
Resilient cities 'There is no escape': Nairobi's air pollution sparks Africa health warning