Leading scientists write to PM amid campaign against expansion of clean air zone in London
have backed an increasingly high-profile campaign against the expansion of the ultra-low emission zone to all London boroughs in August. Some have questioned the need for the clean air zone to be expanded, saying there is no problem with air pollution in their areas.
“A collapse in trust in the scientific process would be a disaster,” the open letter to Sunak said. “We urge you to disassociate from the merchants of doubt and, in no uncertain terms, to tell your party colleagues to not endorse them or emulate their pervasive clams that sow cynicism and undermine the factual and truth foundations of life.”mayor, Sadiq Khan, argues the city cannot afford to not stop people “breathing in poison”, with 4,000 premature deaths a year from toxic air in the capital.
The rollout of the scheme comes with a £110m fund from Khan’s City Hall to help the poorest scrap older, polluting cars, which will attract a fee of £12.50 each day for travel in outer London. UK scientists have led the field on exposing the dangers of toxic air pollution. In 2016, a joint report from the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health estimated that the equivalent of 40,000 deaths was attributable to outdoor air pollution every year in the UK.
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