ClientEarth to take Welsh government to court over air pollution

Environmental lawyers ClientEarth are set to take the Welsh government to court over the failure to produce concrete plans to tackle air pollution.

As reported by the BBC, the case will be heard at the High Court before 23 February next year.

The group said it is concerned with "illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide, which in towns and cities comes mostly from diesel vehicles".

ClientEarth CEO James Thornton said: "People in Wales are choking on toxic fumes on a daily basis.

"It is astonishing that so far the Welsh Government has failed to lift a finger to help them.

"It's been more than two years since the UK Supreme Court made it clear that urgent action is needed but the Welsh Government seems to have hoped that it could ignore this problem and it would just go away."