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UK government sued for third time over deadly air pollution, Nov 7 <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/07/uk-government-sued-for-third-time-over-deadly-air-pollution The Guardian]</ref>
UK government sued for third time over deadly air pollution, Nov 7 <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/07/uk-government-sued-for-third-time-over-deadly-air-pollution The Guardian]</ref>
Revealed: government spent £370,000 losing air pollution legal battles, Oct 23 <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/23/revealed-government-spent-370000-losing-air-pollution-legal-battles-clientearth The Guardian]</ref>


Pollution is killing 50,000 people in the UK every year, Oct 20 <ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/pollution-is-killing-50000-people-in-the-uk-every-year_uk_59e9a808e4b0df10767c15ff huffingtonpost.co.uk]</ref>
Pollution is killing 50,000 people in the UK every year, Oct 20 <ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/pollution-is-killing-50000-people-in-the-uk-every-year_uk_59e9a808e4b0df10767c15ff huffingtonpost.co.uk]</ref>

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This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Environment quality page for a topic overview.

Environmental inequality in the United Kingdom

UK environmental inequalities refers to the way in which the quality of the environment differs between different communities in the UK.

Examples of environmental inequalities in the UK include: Access to parks, green spaces and the natural environment; Exposure to flood risk; Air pollution; Exposure to harmful chemicals; Transport-related problems and Proximity to waste and landfill sites.

Responses to UK environmental inequalities have included NGO's, academia and government. W

Campaigns

Pesticide-free towns and cities, pan-uk.org

UK Noise Association

Resources

Apps for sustainability

FixMyStreet - LitterGram

Citizens data initiative

UK AIR, air quality information resource, Defra

Maps

How clean is the air where you are? foe.co.uk

NightBlight, CPRE

UK Ambient Air Quality Interactive Map, Defra UK, government site

What's in Your Backyard? Local and national environmental data from the Environment Agency

Networks

News and comment

2017

UK government sued for third time over deadly air pollution, Nov 7 [1]

Revealed: government spent £370,000 losing air pollution legal battles, Oct 23 [2]

Pollution is killing 50,000 people in the UK every year, Oct 20 [3]

ClientEarth threatens UK with legal action as councils miss air pollution targets, Oct 19 [4]

UK citizens are taking air pollution monitoring into their own hands, Sep 1 [5]

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Bristol news: Bristol’s rubbish heroes, Jun 22 [6]

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London news: Mayor plans to introduce Ultra Low Emission Zone in April 2019, Apr 4 [7]

2016

Cars don’t just choke our children – they tear a hole in our communities, George Monbiot, Nov 8 [8]

2015

Smoke and Mirrors, September 22 [9]

2014

UK admits that air quality targets will be missed by 20 years, July 10 [10]

How the smog in Nottingham became worse than Beijing – and David Cameron made up a lot of unscientific nonsense, April 4 [11]

Events

2015

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September 18 - 21 Beachwatch
mcsuk.org

May 18 - 23 Noise Action Week
noiseactionweek.org.uk

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April 24 - 30 Big Beach Clean-up
Marine Conservation Society

See also

Interwiki links

Wikipedia: Environmental inequality in the United Kingdom

External links

Information from gov.uk


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