🌃 Clear the air for Santa! 🎅 Air pollution grounded his sleigh… but cargo bikes saved the day 🚲🎁 💨 Gifts delivered fast, efficient and emissions-free ✨ #CargoRevolution #cargobikes #cleantransport www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoMC...

It's a month until #CleanAirNight, a campaign that raises awareness of the impact of wood burning on #Health & #AirPollution. People contact us every week due to being impacted by others' burning. Can you help us share the facts? Burning pollutes not only your home, but your local community too.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to pitch this, and for choosing our pitch to go forward @commonseac.parliament.uk. We were really impressed by all the teams pitching - a tough crowd! We hope they get their chance in due course.

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We're pleased to see this new #AirPollution alert system in the #WestMidlands. As with the London alert system, it will only be triggered if pollution levels go above legal thresholds, which are far higher than the World Health Organization recommends, but it's a good start.

NEW: We’re delighted that our founder @jemimavivien.bsky.social & @nateaston.bsky.social's pitch to the @commonseac.parliament.uk for an #AirPollution inquiry has been accepted! Thanks for all the hard work from so many on this - a fantastic end to the year! committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Hot off the presses: an update to the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory. The borough-level nitrogen dioxide (NO2) diffusion tube data shows good progress, with 98% of monitoring sites meeting the UK's legal limit of 40 µg/m3 NO2 in 2024. data.london.gov.uk/dataset/air-...

This new podcast from The Green Londoner features an #AirPollution discussion with Professor Frank Kelly. Good to hear the Professor's explanation that London still has a way to go on NO2, despite recent DEFRA data suggesting otherwise. He summarises the issues with #WoodBurning really well too.

We've got just a few left that we can send out First Class if you'd like! #ChristmasIsComing

We're pleased to be presenting a #CleanAir pitch to the Environmental Audit Committee today with @nateaston.bsky.social. We'll be making the case for an inquiry into #AirPollution, and explaining why we need far stronger Government action on both indoor & outdoor #AirPollution.

Our Birmingham spokespeople Kirsten & Maya were at today’s launch of the #WestMidlands Air Quality Alert System, alongside @richardparkerwm.bsky.social, clinicians, the WM Fire Service & Birmingham Healthy Air Coalition. A positive step for cleaner air & children’s #Health. Other Mayors take note!

From London hitting clean air targets nearly 200 years early to Bangkok strengthening its targets, here are our 5 top moments from 2025, where cities around the world showed how they are delivering cleaner air and safer futures.

Good news from Oxford - after a recent consultation, five new #SchoolStreets are to be trialled, plus an extension for an existing School Street in Headington has been given the go-ahead. Great to see!

On my way to the launch of the West Midlands Combined Authority’s Air Quality Alert System, representing @mumsforlungs.bsky.social - on an electric bus! ⚡️🚌

Interesting to read about this new tool to assess #AirQuality in school classrooms. The tool estimates how adding a HEPA filter could reduce particulate matter and aerosol concentrations. #IndoorAirPollution

Come to Bristol on 12th March! A day-conference bringing together people from across this wide and diverse movement for children's freedom and right to play out near home. Great speakers, lots of discussion. Low-cost and free ticket options! Don't miss it. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

Sending sympathy and solidarity to everyone in Delhi. The current level of #AirPollution there is more than 30 times the limit recommended by the World Health Organization.

This is powerful, on Hebburn residents' fight against the Monkton cokeworks. "Community protection becomes a kind of unpaid, unavoidable labour: the sort usually carried by women". There are echoes here with the Corby Steelworks, Southall Gasworks & Launders Lane campaigns, to name three.

Thank you @timrowkins.bsky.social and Brighton and Hove City Council for raising awareness of the impacts of #WoodBurning. "A simple message: there are clear and proven #Health risks associated with using fireplaces and wood-burners". #AirPollution

Last chance: Order your FREE Christmas cards before the last posting date! There are three designs - a #SchoolStreet, a fire-free fireplace and "All we want for Christmas is #CleanAir". Order yours here: www.mumsforlungs.org/news/christm...

We are all familiar with the smell of burnt kerosene around airports but there is little data on passenger #airpollution exposure. Some French scientists set out to investigate. For the Guardian, my latest piece looks at UFP exposure. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The impact of #WoodBurning on our neighbours is often overlooked. If you can smell woodsmoke, you're breathing in harmful toxins that can seriously affect your #Health. You can order our free posters via the link. www.mumsforlungs.org/news/wood-bu...

Why should you care about #Diesel? There are millions of diesel cars on our roads emitting suspiciously high levels of #AirPollution. The excess emissions produced over the last 15 years have caused an estimated 30,000 cases of asthma in children and 800,000 days of sick leave in the UK. More 👇 .

Had a lovely evening in Oxford last night, despite the smoky air. Great to see two local pubs – the Old Bookbinders and the Lamb & Flag – doing their bit by not burning wood and keeping the air clean! #FireplaceFlip #WoodBurning @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @emilykerr36.bsky.social 💚

It's great to hear that the #WestMidlands Combined Authority has been awarded over £30 million for safer walking and cycling schemes, including #SchoolStreets. We look forward to hearing more detail. Thank you for supporting #ActiveTravel @richardparkerwm.bsky.social!

Good thread from @jimmcquaid.bsky.social here about #WoodBurning, fine particle emissions and the newly updated Environmental Improvement Plan. #AirPollution #Health

🎅 Our marvellous volunteer Tara is continuing to send out our FREE Christmas cards! 🎅 There are three designs - a #SchoolStreet, a fire-free fireplace and "All we want for Christmas is #CleanAir". Order yours now before we run out: www.mumsforlungs.org/news/christm...

Ultrafine particles can enter the brain through the nose. Government says it will use "four tests" - climate, air quality, noise and economic growth - on Heathrow expansion It's ignoring dangers of UFPs @peteknapp.bsky.social @mumsforlungs.bsky.social www.salamandernews.org/heathrow-exp...

Our School Streets Facebook group brings together people from all over the UK to share info, answer questions & give advice. With 1500 members there’s a lot of expertise available, plus sympathy with chaotic, polluted school runs. Join us! #SchoolStreets

Burning wood damages our #Climate. 👍 Planting a new tree is great but... 👎 ...it takes decades of growth before that new tree is mature enough to absorb the carbon emitted from the one burnt last night. #WoodBurning #AirPollution

Want to know why we need properly enforced #SchoolStreets in #GreaterManchester? Have a read of this, then get in touch if you want to start the ball rolling on getting one at your school! www.mumsforlungs.org/gm-school-st...

It's 8 weeks since we gathered outside the High Court on the first day of the #Dieselgate trial, to highlight the public interest in this case. The children of parents in our network were so excited to see it in The Week Junior! A judgment can't come soon enough. www.mumsforlungs.org/news/dieselg...

"Meeting these targets has the potential to deliver massive benefits to the country." @benrpearce.bsky.social, Head of our Health Effects of Air Pollution programme, on the Government's new Environmental Improvement Plan:

Are you heading to a primary school open day soon? We have some suggestions to add to your list of questions to ask. Head here if you'd like some good facts about why an active school run is the way to go: www.mumsforlungs.org/news/make-th...

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Southern California has carried out its fourth No Burn Day of the 2025>2026 season. Can we do the same on high #AirPollution days, @london.gov.uk?

🎅 Our marvellous volunteer Tara is continuing to send out our FREE Christmas cards! 🎅 There are three designs - a #SchoolStreet, a fire-free fireplace and "All we want for Christmas is #CleanAir". Order yours now before we run out: www.mumsforlungs.org/news/christm...

73 years ago today, London's Great Smog began. We've come a very long way, but there's still work to be done to clean up our dirty air. #AirPollution #London

The further we reduce PM2.5, the better it is for our #Health. New research from UCL shows that exercising in areas of raised PM2.5 pollution reduces the health benefits of being active. More evidence that we need to be heading towards World Health Organization #AirPollution guideline levels.

Today's BBC #Carspreading article takes a good look at the issue of the rise of the SUV, with reasons and solutions, but doesn't mention #RoadDanger at all. Children are 82% more likely to suffer fatal injuries in an SUV collision than one involving a car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Clean Air Night is on January 22nd this year. Can you share the facts about #WoodBurning so we can protect the health of everyone in our communities? Burning wood doesn’t just pollute your home - it also pollutes your local community and harms the #Health of your neighbours. #CleanAirNight

Thank you @helenhayes.bsky.social for asking this question about the recall of #Diesel vehicles fitted with defeat devices. We're glad to have it confirmed by @simonlightwood.org.uk that the Market Surveillance Unit will recall vehicles where necessary. www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...

Have a look at how much we are using each source. Road Transport - LOTS. Wood Burning - Not a lot at all. And then look at the pollution from each source. We have over 40 million vehicles, and about 3 million wood burners. Yet wood burning is about the same amount of pollution.

“18 years without a car, I suppose we’ll need to buy an EV now and have it sat in a kerbside parking space for 98% of its life.” A good read on Zipcar's decision to close. We hope there's a way to turn this around. #ZeroEmission #AirPollution

Not sure what we will do, but having very local access to Zipcar was a core part of our decision to sell our own car.

Breaking: @emmahardymp.bsky.social publishes Environmental Improvement Plan 2025. Simon Birkett @cleanairlondon.bsky.social commented: "It's a step in the right direction but far adrift from the EU's new legal standards for #AirQuality in 2030. We need #EllasLaw, NO2 of 20 and a pathway to WHO AQGs"

More on the revised Environmental Improvement Plan, published today. "Government must now match this ambition with sustained investment in local authorities, and by acting on major sources of pollution, including through its consultation on wood burning." @impurbanhealth.bsky.social #CleanAir

Hazel is a Winchester local who moved into a property with a wood burner many years ago. She started using it to heat her home, but after learning about air pollution she became concerned about the impacts it might be having on her health and eventually replaced it with an electric stove.

We’ve been urging the government to commit to stronger targets for years, so we're pleased that the government has finally listened. The devil is in the detail. #AirPollution is largely below these levels already across the country and is still making hundreds of thousands of people sick.

Happy 1st December! Have you ordered your free Christmas cards yet? We're offering our Christmas cards again this year - please join us in sending season's greetings while sharing facts and tips on how to reduce #AirPollution. You can order yours at the link.