Category Archives: Europe

The Air We Breathe

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Respro® UK Ltd

When you think of air pollution you may imagine smog filled cities from bygone times, but today our air quality has reached dangerous levels. Much of this pollution is from the dash for diesel and it’s now landed our Government … Continue reading →

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Weak EU air pollution standards risk thousands of lives, says report

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Respro® UK Ltd

Weak draft EU rules for coal plant emissions could result in 71,000 deaths and €52bn (£37bn) of health costs across Europe in the decade to come, according to new research published on Wednesday. A Greenpeace investigation earlier this year found … Continue reading →

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Air pollution killed 550 people in Northern Ireland in one year

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Respro® UK Ltd

Air pollution killed 550 people in Northern Ireland in 2011, according to a new study. That represented almost 4% of annual deaths here, the study by the Department of the Environment (DoE) said. The purpose of the cross-border study carried … Continue reading →

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Lambeth gets tough on polluting drivers

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Respro® UK Ltd

Fines will be issued to bus and taxi drivers who leave their engines running as part of an effort to tackle high levels of air pollution in Lambeth. Figures from campaign group Clean Air London showed that some roads in … Continue reading →

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Defra ‘breaking law’ by not restoring hacked air-quality website, say users

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Respro® UK Ltd

Environment department accused of violating European law for not getting UK Air site, which provides live data on air quality, online since Islamist cyber-attack The UK government has been accused of breaking European law after failing to get its air-quality … Continue reading →

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Pollutionwatch: A deadline missed, with deadly consequences

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Respro® UK Ltd

April’s Supreme Court ruling on air quality means that the government must make new plans to meet European Limits for nitrogen dioxide. These limits were set in 1998 to be achieved by 2010, giving us 12 years. Not only have … Continue reading →

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Town Hall must act quickly to combat ‘illegal’ air pollution, say cycle campaigners

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Respro® UK Ltd

CYCLING campaigners have called on the Town Hall to take immediate steps to reduce motor traffic in a bid to combat “illegal” levels of air pollution. Islington Cyclists’ Action Group (ICAG), which carried out research with the activist lawyer group … Continue reading →

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Air pollution: Not breathing easy

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Respro® UK Ltd

BRITISH air is much clearer than it once was: in 1952 one “pea souper” smog in London (see photo) caused the deaths of around 4,000 people in a week. But it is not as clean as it could be. On … Continue reading →

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