All Blog Posts Tagged 'air-pollution' (3)

So it’s confirmed: 4,200 a year die prematurely from respiratory illness caused by traffic pollution. But it’s OK. The authorities, media and clean air campaigners are on the case: it’s all down to traffic and roadworks. The all-seeing mayor is "investing £250,000,000 in sustainable long term measures such as the cycling revolution". Bizarre. It’s as if our Portishead lights-off trial - which cut journey times by over half,…

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Now I shout it from the highest hill ... Sometimes it's difficult to contain the frustration you feel in knowing that public policy is profoundly mistaken while all around you, every day of every year, you see it abusing civilised values, as well as our time, health and safety. Health & safety isn't something I often defend, at least not the runaway regulation it has come to represent. I'm talking about roads made…

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Polluted air causes 50,000 premature deaths a year. Tim Yeo, Chairman of the Commons Environmental Audit Committee, says the lives of asthma sufferers in particular can be shortened by nine years. (That's me, folks!) The health costs of pollution could be as high as £20.2bn, similar to the cost of alcohol abuse. "Much more needs to be done to save lives and reduce the burden of air pollution on the NHS." Yes, and as some of us been saying for years, FiT solutions could make an immediate… Continue