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Did you mean Pollution
Barclay: Unlimited financial penalties for environmental offences will mean ‘polluters always pay’.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
A resource focusing on air pollution: sources, impacts and actions.
Air pollution is a global environmental health threat, contributing to an estimated 3-7 million deaths per year
This document sets out what air pollution is, where it comes from, what we’re doing to reduce it, and what you can do.
This section describes mechanisms for agricultural and non-agricultural diffuse source pollution.
COMEAP summary of the science linking long-term air pollution exposure with SARS-CoV-2 infection and adverse COVID-19 outcomes.
We sought views on developing our strategy for the management of urban diffuse water pollution in England.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
This year’s report lays out the scale of the challenge of reducing air pollution, the substantial progress that has been made and highlights achievable solutions.
This paper reviews new data from Delhi’s recent programme to ration driving, and industrial emissions in Gujarat and Maharashtra
This report is a quantitative systematic review of short term associations between ambient air pollution and mortality and morbidity.
This review provides an assessment of the contemporary health impacts arising from household and ambient air pollution exposure
COMEAP advice note on the health evidence relevant to developing targets for fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) under the Environment Act (2021).
A report by the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP).
A community event will take place next week to explain proposals for a mine water treatment scheme at Threlkeld, near Keswick.
New laws will scrap the cap on civil penalties and significantly broaden their scope to target a much wider range of environmental offences
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