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Add your name: A child’s right to clean air shouldn’t be a postcode lottery (The Air Team)

transport
16th Jan 2020

In the UK's biggest cities, air pollution is dangerously high – and it’s putting our children’s health at risk.

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Demand clean air now (British Heart Foundation)

transport
13th Jan 2020

Each year, up to 11,000 UK heart and circulatory disease deaths are attributable to air pollution. We need your help to change this.

To: Manchester City Council Prioritise People not Cars. Please Pedestrianise Deansgate

transport
5th Sep 2019

Call on the council to go the whole hog and close it to traffic* all year round and make it the living, breathing, vibrant street it wants to be!

To: Manchester City Council – Build a Green, Community Space, not a CAR PARK (38 Degrees)

transport
6th Aug 2019

We the undersigned petition Manchester City Council to transform the old Central Retail Park into a 10 acre Green, Community space, not a 440 space car park.

Dirty Air Hits the Vulnerable Hardest

The GM Clean Air Conversation

transport
take action
19th Jun 2019

Speak up for Healthy Air People in Greater Manchester can comment on proposals for a Clean Air Plan. This is an opportunity to demand strong action on pollution from transport and get the healthy air our city deserves. You can …

Call for sustainable transport and healthy air for the city centre!

transport
take action
8th Oct 2018

Transport for Greater Manchester are seeking views on the development of the city centre. They are working with Manchester City Council and Salford City Council. You have until Wednesday 17th October to give your views on how you find getting …

Help put an end to air pollution

transport
10th May 2018

Air pollution is deadly. But action to deal with this invisible killer just isn’t happening quickly enough. Too many of us are breathing in toxic filthy air created by vehicles on our roads – in particular diesels. And the consequences for …

Michael Gove: Help us get diesel cars out of our towns and cities (Healthy Air Campaign)

transport
7th Jan 2018

The UK Government is asking members of the public to send in their thoughts on how we can take diesel cars out of our towns and cities, without hurting the wallets of diesel car owners.

Speak up for Clean Air: Take 2 minutes to tell the Government what you think about the UK’s air pollution crisis

transport
11th Jun 2017

UK Air Quality Consultation Illegal and harmful levels of air pollution are harming the health of people across the UK. Legal limits of nitrogen dioxide should have been met in 2010 but successive governments have failed to get a grip …

Ask your MEPs to clean up vehicle testing (Campaign for Better Transport)

transport
17th Mar 2017

In April 2017, MEPs have a real chance to do something about air pollution from vehicles – let’s make sure they take it. 

Demand Clean Air Zones in Greater Manchester

transport
4th Dec 2016

On 2nd November 2016, ClientEarth won a High Court case against the Government over the Government’s failure to tackle illegal air pollution across the UK. In a damning indictment of ministers’ inaction on killer air pollution, Mr Justice Garnham agreed …

Diesel pollution scandal: dodgy filter-removal practice makes cars illegal

transport
3rd May 2016

For years some garages have been offering a dodgy practice which renders diesel cars illegal. Most diesels produced in the last decade include a ‘diesel particulate filter’ (DPF) – a bit of kit that traps soot in exhaust fumes. Soot …

Action: Please respond to the GM Low-Emissions Strategy and Air Quality Action Plan consultation

transport
23rd Apr 2016

Transport for Greater Manchester are consulting on their plans for our transport system to reduce its climate change emissions and air pollution. If you’re concerned about climate change and air quality, this is an important consultation to respond to. We’ve …

Shocking air pollution facts – #5 is unbelievable

transport
31st Mar 2016

Road traffic is the biggest source of air pollution in city centres. Diesel vehicles spew out a lot of the toxic fumes.

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