Air pollution is easy to understand. It is bad for you, causes long term and short term health problems and it accounts for an estimated 4,000 premature deaths a year in London alone. Unfortunately, the European rules which govern how nations tackle air pollution, are complicated and hard to understand. For example, it is hard […]
New ideas urgently needed as Government let down Londoners over air pollution
The attempts by the Mayor of London to get Government support for reducing air pollution have failed. The London Assembly has recognised this reality and supported a motion I put forward which asks the Mayor to rewrite the document which he only finalised a year ago. Boris Johnson spent over two years drawing up his […]
London won’t be plastic bag free city for Olympics
I thought it was a welcome move when Boris Johnson, The Mayor of London criticised the previous government for their ‘extremely cautious’ approach to tackling plastic bags and declared that ‘we will push for stronger measures’ (in his 2008 Mayoral election manifesto). Once elected he reinforced this with news headlines reporting his intentions of a […]
Black cabs and pollution
I have spent the last decade raising concerns about the impact of air pollution on Londoner’s health and the failure of politicians at all levels of government to do something about it. I am a Green Party member of the London Assembly. It is one of things I am elected to do. I use the […]
Behind the spin, the Mayor’s hybrid bus figures don’t add up
As London Mayor Boris Johnson announces additional hybrid buses for the capital, Darren Johnson looks back at the Mayor’s earlier promise to have more than 350 hybrids on London’s roads by March 2011.