UK Air Pollution - Environmental Audit Commission
Posted on: November 14, 2011
The government’s failure to meet EU standards on air pollution is “putting the health of UK residents at risk”, says the Environmental Audit Committee.
Bad air quality costs the nation £8.5-20bn per year via poor health, it says, and can cut life expectancy by years.
Continued failure to meet EU standards could result in swingeing fines.
The committee says ministers’ “apparent tactic” to avoid fines is to ask the European Commission for repeated extensions rather than curb pollution.
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