The ruling ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to delay implementing regulations designed to limit interstate air pollution, giving a boost to power companies

Scotland's major cities are being exposed to "dangerous levels of air pollution", according to an environmental charity.

Air pollution is a silent killer, especially the smallest dust particles which may take years and years of chronic exposure to show their deadly effects on human health. But this is just one of the three paradoxes of air quality, says Myriam Tryjefaczka, from Camfil Farr, a Swedish company manufacturing ventilation and air filtering systems. More »

Reducing traffic-related pollution, particularly from diesel, is set to become "a political hot potato" for London as air quality problems promise to grow bigger during the 2012 Olympics. More »

In the UK, air pollution is the biggest public health risk after smoking, causing up to 50,000 premature deaths every year, says Simon Birkett, founder of Clean Air London, a campaign group. More »

The plan would raise efficiency standards to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 to save motorists money at the pump and limit air pollution

Protestations that government is encouraging electric cars and needs more time to comply are rubbish. It’s not as if air pollution is hard to control or even expensive. Most comes from mass car use, so a national network of low emissions zones could be set up within months. Fewer vehicles could be allowed into city

The UK government's continued failure to meet EU air pollution standards is cutting some people's life expectancy by two years, a report by MPs says.

Chief executives have written to Vince Cable raising concerns that non-EU airlines may secure an exemption from an air pollution scheme

One of the great changes that has happened in England in my lifetime is the cleaning up of the urban environment. I’m too young (by a decade or more) to have seen the great smogs, but I do vividly remember how houses were all, 20, 30 years ago, streaked black from the century or more