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Today’s news that Environmental Protection UK has been forced to shut is another blot on the UK’s air quality record.
It was announced earlier today that Britain's oldest environmental NGO, an expert body on air pollution and contamination, has succumbed to financial challenges brought about by government cuts to authority budgets.
Today’s Environmental Audit Committee report is an urgent call for the transport industry to clean up its act.
The Environmental Audit Committee sharply criticised the UK’s failure to meet EU standards on air pollution, calling for the creation of a network of Low Emission Zones (LEZ) across the country.
At 1pm today the solar industry presented a REA/STA letter signed by 200 prominent individuals and organisations, and a Friends of the Earth petition signed by 17000 concerned citizens, urging the PM and DPM to reconsider the drastic cuts and changes being rushed through to the Feed-in Tariff.
Commenting on the Sunday Times YouGov public opinion poll [1] which showed huge support for solar power, STA Chairman Howard Johns said:
Britain faces a future of water shortages, and lasting environmental damage, with some rivers running dry, unless attitudes to water use change, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman cautioned today.
