UK environment ministers will be taken to court 'within weeks': air pollution in London exceeds legal limits for 2016 in just 8 days

UK environment ministers will be taken to court within weeks to make them speed up plans to reduce dangerous urban air pollution, reports The Guardian.  Alan Andrews, Lawyer for ClientEarth, which last year forced the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to come up with fresh plans to tackle illegal NO2 levels in British cities, warned that it would seek urgent court action because thousands of people’s lives were at risk if present government plans were not...