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We need stricter MOT tests to eliminate air pollution, says campaign group

Envirotec Magazine

This legislation is coming into effect on 1 July 2022, as it is in Belgium with Germany and Switzerland following suit in January 2023 with similar MOT testing rules. Update the law to save lives. The policies and frameworks are there, and all the Government needs to do is update the law. Government.

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Government sets out new targets on air quality, water pollution, waste and woodland cover

Envirotec Magazine

While subject to consultation, the revised targets are to be incorporated into the Environment Act , which became law on 10 November last year. These targets need to be laid as draft Statutory Instruments by 31 October 2022, says the consultation document , and will come into force once approved by Parliament. g/m 3 to 10 ?g/m

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BBC Accused of Doing PR for Major Polluters

DeSmogBlog

Between 2016 and 2022, the firm sold 16 of its coal plants – a 60 percent reduction in its coal capacity. This transferred the polluting plants to different owners, meaning that the plants will still contribute to global emissions. BBC StoryWorks has also worked extensively with other polluting transport companies.

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Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit

DeSmogBlog

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. Truss, who is the Conservative MP for South West Norfolk, resigned as prime minister in October 2022 after just 49 days in office. There also should be fracking in the UK.”

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McDonald’s Leads Lobbying Offensive Against Laws to Reduce Packaging Waste in Europe

DeSmogBlog

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the law in the next 12 months.

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Measures to reduce harm from storm overflows now law

Envirotec Magazine

Reducing the reliance of water companies on storm overflows is important to help cut pollution in waterways, and earlier this year the Government announced it was working with Philip Dunne MP on shared ambitions to tackle high levels of sewage in UK rivers, following the introduction of his Private Member’s Bill in 2020.

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Government seeks legally-binding environmental targets from 2022

Business Green

Defra promises 'robust, evidence led process' to set in statute air, water, waste and biodiversity targets by the end of October 2022. A credible Environment Bill has to help protect the Amazon and other disappearing habitats with tough new nature laws to eliminate deforestation from the products we buy.".