Giving evidence to the Commons joint inquiry into air quality, the mayor of London revealed he was lobbying the government to support a £515m London-based two-year diesel scrappage scheme. But he announced a fund of £220m to help with local air quality plans. “Local authorities can’t solve all these problems themselves, there needs to be national leadership,” he said. “The government’s new air quality plan doesn’t commit to doing very much at all. Khan and Andrews called for a new clean air act which would give citizens a legal right to clean air and set up new legal powers to replicate EU directives and create an independent enforcement agency post Brexit.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2017 15:11 UTC