air pollution

Legal briefs: Lambeth wins retail restrictions case; Swindon succeeds in certificate of lawfulness challenge

05.07.2019

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 29 June-5 July, 2019

Northern Ireland round-up: Major new hotel surfaces in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter; Capital office developer agrees £100,000 for public realm

03.05.2019

Roger Milne

air pollution | Leisure & Tourism | Northern Ireland | offices | titanic quarter

A round-up of planning news in Northern Ireland: 27 April-3 May, 2019

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Appeal: Brokenshire blocks Hertfordshire green belt gravel extraction

04.04.2019

Matt Moody

The communities secretary has refused plans to extract 1.75 million tonnes of sand and gravel near Hertford, rejecting the appellant’s request for him to consider a revised scheme to extract 1.25 million...

Legal briefs: Slough landlord receives suspended jail sentence for illegal flats; Councils warned about dirty air

29.03.2019

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 23 March-29 March, 2019

Gove targets decarbonisation of rail industry in clean air strategy

14.01.2019

Laura Edgar

The government plans to support farmers to reduce ammonia emissions and the rail industry on decarbonisation as it looks to protect the nation’s health.

Greater Manchester air pollution exceeds estimates

25.10.2018

Huw Morris

air pollution | Environmental | Greater Manchester | North West

Air pollution in Greater Manchester is considerably worse than has been previously estimated, according to latest research.

MPs call for post-Brexit Environmental Enforcement and Audit Office

25.07.2018

Huw Morris

MPs are demanding that the government should set up an independent oversight body to ensure that environmental governance, enforcement and policy currently carried out by the European Commission are not lost after Brexit.

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MPs say government more interested in ‘box-ticking’ than real climate change action

15.03.2018

Laura Edgar

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Environment Audit; Health and Social Care; and Transport Committees have said the government is ‘more concerned with box-ticking’ than taking ‘bold, meaningful action’ when it comes to tackling the UK’s air quality.

Legal briefs: UK government loses third air quality court case; Deadline for Welsh air pollution action

23.02.2018

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 17 February-23 February, 2018

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Street in Glasgow is Scotland’s most polluted in 2017

22.01.2018

Laura Edgar

A study by Friends of the Earth Scotland has named streets in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee as the six most polluted in terms of nitrogen dioxide emissions.

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