Air pollution at this level for 10 more years will put a generation at risk | Justine Thornton
by Justine Thornton from on (#10EQA)
The courts must be involved: the quality of air our children breathe is too important to be decided in secret by ministers and the motor trade
When I was eight years old, I used to hold my breath when I walked to school. My route was along a busy road, and I had been told that lead in petrol hurt children's brains. I stopped worrying as the years went by and there was a successful campaign to ban it. But now I sometimes find myself coughing as I wait on my bike behind a London bus and its fumes catch in my throat.
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