Today marks the first day of the season on which the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has felt it necessary to announce a Spare the Air Alert for fine particle pollution in San Francisco, a move which bans people from burning wood while the alert is in place.
Despite promising to reduce pollution, a central London masterplan has been met with opposition from air quality groups. Martin Guttridge-Hewitt attempts to navigate the confusion and asks if planning processes that fail to engage communities are valid in the climate age.