air quality

Campaigners welcome strengthened MoT tests to detect vehicles without diesel particulate filters

ClientEarth's Alan Andrews welcomes Krakow's plan to crack down on coal pollution

Compromise deal agreed following heavy lobbying from Germany concerned about luxury car industry

COVAC warns cooling tower operators need to act to tackle Legionnaire's disease risks

Government defeated by 237 to 193 in vote to amend energy bill that could mean plants are forced to cut down gas emissions

Janez Potočnik promises action after report finds poor air quality is causing 10 times more premature deaths than car accidents

European Court of Justice unlikely to decide case until next year, as UK admits it is continuing to breach safe pollution limits

Government urged to crack down on potentially illegal removal of factory fitted diesel particulate filters

Fresh five-year plan will give officials the power to shut industrial plants that fail to meet air quality targets

Series of indices rank top 100 air polluters, greenhouse gas emitters and water polluters