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UK plan to improve air quality is too weak, say campaigners

Campaigners have criticised the UK government’s draft plan to improve air quality, published on 5 May,1 as being too weak to improve public health.

“The plan looks much weaker than we had hoped for,” said James Thornton, of Client Earth, the environmental law charity that took ministers to court, arguing that their failure to take measures to reduce air pollution put them in breach of EU law and domestic regulations.

Thornton continued, “The court ordered the government to take this public health issue seriously, and while the government says that pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health, …