air quality Articles

Today’s environment strategy is the first step in making Sadiq Khan’s green ambition for London a reality – and there is not a garden bridge gimmick in sight, writes Leonie Cooper AM Boris Johnson’s mayoral policies were rarely dull. From the two hundred million...

Air quality is one of the biggest climate emergencies of our time – and the government's response has been sorely lacking, writes Alan Whitehead MP It really has not been third time lucky for the government in its increasingly desperate attempts to introduce an air...

Forty thousand deaths caused by air pollution each year require urgent action, not platitudinous long-term promises Michael Gove cannot keep, argues Geraint Davies MP As is said too often, a week is a long time in politics. It would therefore be optimistic for the...

What should Ed Miliband discuss in his meeting with Europe’s most powerful and successful politician, German chancellor Angela Merkel? The economy will rightly be top of the agenda. The German unemployment rate is 5.1 per cent, compared to 7.2 per cent in the UK. And...