Another generation of London children condemned to breathing toxic air by post-Brexit eco-targets delay

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey who has admitted the Government has missed a deadline to set new post-Brexit eco-targets including on toxic air

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Ministers were accused on Tuesday of condemning another generation of children to breathing toxic air in London and other parts of Britain by setting a target to tackle it only by 2040.

MPs in the capital called for the proposed timescale to be sped up by a decade to cut levels of tiny PM2.5 particulate pollution which scientists say is particularly harmful to human health.