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As the New Year dawns, thousands of businesses face an unwelcome change: a £200 daily charge to enter the capital.
Today tighter standards are introduced to London’s low emissions zone (LEZ). Lorries, buses, coaches and other specialist heavy diesel vehicles entering the capital will be subject to a £200 per day fine unless they meet Euro 4 emissions standards.
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.
The Government is missing a trick if it doesn’t look at ways of incentivising homeowners to take-up the Green Deal using the feed-in-tariff, says renewable energy installer Freesource Energy.
UKERC has been invited by the French National Research Agency to play a key role in an exciting new drive to establish a number of Institutes of Excellence in the low-carbon energy field.
A number of successful events have recently been held at The Works: Ebbw Vale to inform Blaenau Gwent’s communities about the ongoing progress and the exciting developments that are transforming the area.
