High court gives ministers deadline for tougher air pollution plan
by Damian Carrington from Environment | The Guardian on (#22DYG)
UK environment department must publish stronger air quality plan by April 2017, five months sooner than the deadline that government wanted
The government is being forced to deliver an effective plan to tackle the UK's air pollution crisis within eight months, after a high court judge rejected a longer timetable as "far too leisurely".
Environmental lawyers ClientEarth inflicted a humiliating legal defeat on ministers earlier in November - its second in 18 months - when the high court ruled that ministers' plans to tackle illegal levels of air pollution in many UK cities and towns were so poor they were unlawful.
Continue reading...