Sentences with phrase «legal air pollution limits»

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Environmental group Friends of the Earth claimed that air pollution in London breached legal limits in April 2011, despite commitments by both the UK Government and the London Mayor to bring it under control to avoid huge EU fines.

The case was referred to the European Court of Justice, which ruled in 2014 that national courts can and should ensure that governments act to get air pollution below legal limits «as soon as possible».

But the UK government's action plan consisted of clean air zones in just five cities, which would not get pollution below legal limits before 202o in most areas — and even later in London.

While there are many sources of air pollution, road transport is a major source, contributing up to 80 per cent of the problem where legal limits are broken in towns and cities across the UK.

However, 37 of the 43 zones that the UK is divided into for air quality monitoring are still breaching legal limits of air pollution that should have been met in 2010.

The mayor said: «Every child deserves the right to breathe clean air in London and it is a shameful fact that more than 360 of our primary schools are in areas breaching legal pollution limits.»

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today unanimously ruled in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) legal authority to limit industrial carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act to protect Americans» health.