Tory failure to deliver pollution action plan angers environmentalists
Ministers submit court application to delay tackling illegal levels of toxic fumes, deemed by MPs to be a public health emergency
The government has made a last-minute application to the high court to delay the publication of its plan to tackle the air pollution crisis.
Ministers were under a court direction to produce tougher draft measures to tackle illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution, which is largely caused by diesel traffic, by 4pm on Monday. The government’s original plans had been dismissed by judges as so poor as to be unlawful.
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Source: Guardian Transport
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