VoteClimate: Air Pollution: Local Authority Funding - 25th July 2019

Air Pollution: Local Authority Funding - 25th July 2019

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Air Pollution: Local Authority Funding.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-07-25/debates/67908C6B-B3D2-475D-8FE4-A2647299C9AB/AirPollutionLocalAuthorityFunding

Justine Greening (Putney) (Con)

Local authorities will not be able to fix the massive air pollution that is caused by a third runway expansion at Heathrow. The new Secretary of State and I both voted against that plan, and of course the new Prime Minister is a long-standing opponent. But pollution goes far wider than air pollution—it is also noise pollution—and it is in conflict with our law on net zero carbon emissions by 2050 that this House passed unanimously. Will the new Secretary of State now insist that this project is put on hold and that a review of it is undertaken before any further work is done?

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