Legislation

Budget 2020: end for red diesel tax ‘loophole’ and roads spending bonanza

In today’s Budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak included several measures that will impact on the nation’s air quality, including a £27bn investment into UK roads, the partial end of a controversial red diesel tax break, a £304m fund for councils to reduce nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions and the extension of the Plug-in Car Grant until 2023.

Legislation Local Government

Councils and air quality: a legal perspective

Legislation

Environment Bill returns to Parliament

Health Legislation

Campaigners asking government to strengthen air quality aspects of Environment Bill

Legislation Local Government

Greater Manchester misses clean air deadline blaming government uncertainty

Legislation

UK citizens legal right to clean air could be ‘cast aside’ after Brexit

Legislation

Council officer handed suspended jail term for falsifying air quality data

Legislation

Wales targets cars, wood-burners, bonfires in new Clean Air Plan

Fuels Health Legislation

UK must commit to WHO air pollution limits, write Camden Council

Cllr Adam Harrison, cabinet member for a sustainable Camden, writes for Air Quality News about the importance of enshrining World Health Organisation (WHO) air pollution limits in UK law.