| Letter to the Commission on the UK’s revised PM10 time extension notification |
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15 June 2010 | Read the letter Following submissions by ClientEarth, the European Commission rejected the UK’s initial time extension notification as it did not contain a credible plan for demonstrating how compliance with legal limits on dangerous airborne particles (PM10) would be achieved by 2011. The government has therefore resubmitted its application. However, rather than put in place new measures to improve air quality and ensure legal compliance, the application simply fiddles with the air quality projections to claim that legal limits will be achieved in 2011. These projections are totally unrealistic, relying on dubious methodologies and, in one case, a policy which had already been scheduled for cancellation (the western extension to the congestion charging zone). Most worryingly, the government’s claims are based on data from one monitoring station in London, and ignore data from other more polluted sites in London. ClientEarth has written to the Commission to highlight these serious flaws in the UK’s application. |
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