Press release from UK100 (Twitter: @UK100) commenting on Clean Air Strategy:
[registration_form]“Plans in the Clean Air Strategy will fail unless there are strong new protections in law” – UK100
https://www.uk100.org/campaigns/#clean-air
Responding to the upcoming publication of the Government’s Clean Air Strategy, Polly Billington, Director of UK100, said: “Plans in the Clean Air Strategy will fail unless there are strong new protections in law to clean up our air as we leave the EU and sufficient financial support to make the changes a reality. Local leaders have consistently stated that Clean Air funding committed by Government to tackle air pollution is simply inadequate on three fronts: not enough funding for those local authority areas that Government has identified as having the most severe air quality challenges, insufficient funding available for tackling the wider sources of air pollution and limited financial support for national measures.”
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This will join the completely inadequate approach to an environment law in the UK parliament. If theses issues do not, and are not intended to have legislative teeth they are bound to be ineffective. I believe that this is by design.