Air pollution will damage UK health for 'many years', court told

Government is being sued for third time to act quickly on illegal levels of toxic airAir pollution will continue to take a heavy toll on people's health for many years to come unless the UK government is forced once again to improve its action plan, the high court has been told.Ministers have already had two previous plans declared illegal but environmental lawyers ClientEarth argue that even the latest plan fails to cut widespread illegal levels of pollution in the "shortest possible time", as required by EU law. Continue reading...