Early Day Motions
Indoor Air Quality and Air Quality Enforcement Please find below Early Day Motions that MPs are free to sign. If you support their content then you can e-mail your local MP encouraging them to support the following EDMs.
EDM #186 Environment Bill: Air Quality Enforcement This House notes that, according to the Royal College of Physicians, air pollution accounts for 64,000 premature deaths at a cost of £20 billion each year; that enforceable EU air pollution targets will no longer apply after December 2020; that the Government has accepted World Health Organization (WHO) air pollution guidelines; calls on the Government to include in the Environment Bill the requirement that PM2.5 reaches the WHO guideline annual mean concentration of 10 (μg/m3) by 2030 with interim targets of 12 (μg/m3) by 2025 and 15 (μg/m3) by 2021; and urges that these limits are enforced by the proposed Office for Environmental Protection through fines that are then paid to the NHS towards the health costs of air pollution and to local authorities to reduce air pollution.
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