Archive for Environment

Green wall for Edgware Road Tube station to trap harmful pollution

Green wall for Edgware Road Tube station to trap harmful pollution

September 27, 2011 No Comments

More measures to clean up London’s air in areas of busy traffic have been unveiled by the Mayor today. This includes the announcement that Edgware Road Tube station will soon feature an innovative ‘green wall’ to help trap harmful pollution. The initiatives, announced on World Environmental Health Day, are part of the London Clean Air ...

London Buses announces suppliers for NOx pilot to improve air quality

London Buses announces suppliers for NOx pilot to improve air quality

August 19, 2011 No Comments

Transport for London (TfL) have announced Eminox and HJS have been awarded a contract to install specialist pollution reducing equipment on some London buses. The innovative TfL pilot will be carried out on 18 buses that will have NOx abatement systems called Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) fitted, half supplied by each manufacturer. The abatement system ...

Badger culling INCREASES chance of infection says London study

Badger culling INCREASES chance of infection says London study

July 29, 2011 No Comments

Localised badger culling in response to bovine tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks increases the risk of infection in nearby herds, according to a new analysis. The study, by researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial College London, is published today in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. The findings ...

Clean streets not top priority to Londoners

Clean streets not top priority to Londoners

July 27, 2011 No Comments

Research sponsored by London Councils and Keep Britain Tidy into residents’ priorities for council expenditure reveals that clean streets are an expectation, but education, health, investments in the future, housing, transport, community safety and effectively dealing with anti-social behaviour get top priority. Londoners take it for granted that their streets get properly cleaned, but would ...

Companies fined after Arsenal stadium injury

Three construction companies were fined after a worker helping build Arsenal’s Ashburton Grove stadium was injured so badly, his...

New pensions research undermines government’s ‘fairness’ myth

New research by the PCS union has revealed that the perception of Civil Servants having gilt pensions compared to...