UK faces fresh legal challenge over weak plans to tackle air pollution
by John Vidal from Environment | The Guardian on (#17GPT)
High court challenge could force government to rewrite measures to address illegal levels of toxic NO2 gas in cities that kills about 25,000 people each year
The government faces a new legal challenge to force it to speed up and improve measures to tackle air pollution in British cities.
Environmental law group ClientEarth has asked the high court to urgently review the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra) latest plans to meet EU targets on the toxic gas NO2 which is emitted from vehicles and industry and is thought to kill about 25,000 people in the UK a year.
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