EU takes British government to court for air pollution levels

Britain referred to European Court of Justice along with five other worst polluters.

Air pollution causes around 40,000 early deaths every year in Britain, according to the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The EU summoned Michael Gove, the environment secretary, to Brussels earlier this year to account for the UK’s persistently high levels of toxic nitrogen dioxide, and to explain what policies the government would bring in to resolve the issue.

Margherita Tolotto, air quality policy officer at the European Environment Bureau, said European air quality laws were “being broken on a continental scale”. 

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