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Government's new air quality targets
5 August 2002
The Government today announced new targets for reducing air pollution. Commenting, Roger Higman, Air Pollution campaigner at Friends of the Earth said:
"Although these tougher standards are welcome, they highlight the weakness of the targets set by this Government when it first came to power. The new particles standard is still weaker than the one Labour inherited in 1997. And targets have not been set for fighting summertime smog, which is fast becoming Britain's most serious air quality problem.
“Londoners should also ask why the Government allows them to suffer more air pollution than people elsewhere in Britain. Surely they have the same right to clean air as everyone else. It’s the Government’s responsibility to make sure they get it. The scale of London’s air pollution problems shows why Ken Livingstone’s congestion charging scheme has to be accompanied by measures to cut traffic across the whole of London.”
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