Idling action and clean air zones pushed in NICE guidance
Local authorities should be given additional powers to tackle vehicle idling near schools and care homes and set up clean…
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Heathrow to boost employee low emission vehicle-use
Heathrow Airport will seek to incentivise its staff – around 6,000 employees – to use low emission vehicles to travel…
‘Join-up’ air quality and transport carbon policy, think tank urges
Government must produce a strategy to ‘clean up’ road transport, and ensure that efforts to tackle air pollution and climate…
Councils offered on-street EV charging guidance
Electricity distributor UK Power Networks has launched a guide for local authorities to support the installation of on-street charge points…
Mayor targets ‘Zero Emission London’ by 2050
London’s transport system will be ‘zero emission’ by 2050, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has pledged as part of…
Banning diesel ‘would not solve air pollution crisis’
The head of vehicle manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has claimed that consumers are ‘confused’ about the impact of diesel vehicles…
‘Local’ solutions needed to tackle air pollution – SMMT
Government should avoid applying a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to tackling air pollution in the UK’s towns and cities, the head of…
Clean air charging and funding proposals in spotlight
Responses to the government’s consultation on its national plan for tackling nitrogen dioxide emissions in towns and cities have continued…
