Residents in Greater Manchester head to the polls to elect their next Mayor on 2nd May 2024. As part of a coalition of groups that includes Clean Cities Campaign, Walk Ride GM, Manchester Friends of the Earth, Sustrans, Living Streets and Asthma and Lung UK, we are highlighting the dirty secret of GM’s very high air pollution levels.

The London Mayoral election will be held on 2nd May 2024. Despite the amount of progress made on cleaning up London’s air over the last few years, we need London’s next Mayor to go much further if we want children to be truly protected from the lifelong health impacts of air pollution.

Residents in Manchester City Council head to the polls on 2nd May 2024 and we are campaigning to ensure that strong action to tackle air pollution is high on the council agenda.

Diesel is the single biggest contributor of nitrogen oxides and nitrogen dioxide on our roads, and there are an estimated 2.5 million diesel cars on the road in the UK emitting suspiciously high levels of air pollution.

Many people have positive associations with wood burning – as a cosy, attractive way to heat a room, or as an allegedly carbon-neutral fuel, yet even the most ‘eco-friendly’ wood burning stoves emit high levels of particulate matter (PM).

London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is the world’s largest pollution charging zone. It was first introduced in 2019 and has been expanded twice, becoming London-wide in 2023.

School Streets is a pioneering initiative to transform the roads outside schools so that only pedestrians and cyclists can use them at school drop off and pick up times.

Idling is a frustrating and unnecessary source of air pollution. Many parents in our network have repeatedly witnessed it happening outside schools, in town centres, playgrounds and at hospitals.

Mums for Lungs believes that government and local authorities are not doing enough to address the public health crisis of air pollution.