The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill – our response

We welcome the need for clean air legislation and have been calling for a ‘Clean Air Act’ since 2017. Download Healthy Air Cymru’s consultation response There is no safe level of air pollution. An air pollutant is any substance in the air that could harm people. Particulate matter, known as PM, and nitrogen dioxide are particularly damaging. We also know …

BRIEFING – Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill

About Healthy Air Cymru Healthy Air Cymru (HAC) is a collation of organisations working towards a Wales where people do not develop health conditions due to the pollution around them. The objectives of the group are: To raise awareness of the harmful effects of air pollution on public health, inform Welsh Government, local government, policy makers and opposition politicians of …

Campaigners welcome bill to clean up Wales’s dangerous air

Healthy Air Cymru welcomes the Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill that is being introduced to the Senedd. For the coalition of organisations and charities, which has long been campaigning for this bill, and the wider community affected by toxic air, this is the news they have been waiting for – a new law to make sure the air …

New Clean Air Bill is a historic moment for Wales – and for people’s lives!

Healthy Air Cymru welcomes the news that a Clean Air Bill is included in the First Minister’s legislative statement, published today (5 July 2022).  For the coalition of organisations and charities, which has long been campaigning for this bill, and the wider community affected by toxic air, this is the news they have been waiting for – a new law …

30 Senedd Members renew calls for a Clean Air Act

On Tuesday 14 June 2022 over 30 Senedd Members dropped into to see members of Healthy Air Cymru on the steps of the Senedd to renew calls for a Clean Air Act for Wales in advance of Clean Air Day.

People on lowest incomes breathe most polluted air

New research from Friends of the Earth, released by Healthy Air Cymru on Clean Air Day (15 June 2022), indicates people on the lowest incomes in Wales are breathing in the most polluted air. 30 Senedd Members from all political parties came to an event at the Senedd on Tuesday (14 June 2022) to renew their calls to bring forward …

ROSAMUND KISSI-DEBRAH TELLS SENEDD TO MAKE WELSH AIR SAFE

Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, whose child, Ella Roberta, died of a severe asthma attack in 2013, will urge politicians to take urgent action to clean up Welsh air, when she addresses the Senedd Cross Party Group on a Clean Air Act for Wales.  At a virtual meeting today (Wednesday 26 January) at noon, the grassroots campaigner will tell Senedd members to bring …