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“Modern ‘Defra-approved’ and ‘EcoDesign’ stoves… emit less visible smoke. But even under ideal operating conditions, they still emit significant levels of PM2.5…”
December 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“Modern ‘Defra-approved’ and ‘EcoDesign’ stoves… emit less visible smoke. But even under ideal operating conditions, they still emit significant levels of PM2.5…”
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🚨Great news! Limit for UK’s most dangerous air pollutant, PM2.5, is being cut to 10 µg/m³ by 2030.
🔥New Environmental Improvement Plan aims to reduce emissions at source.
👏Kudos to Emma Reynolds and Defra for setting ambitious targets.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
🔥New Environmental Improvement Plan aims to reduce emissions at source.
👏Kudos to Emma Reynolds and Defra for setting ambitious targets.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) 2025
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December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🚨Great news! Limit for UK’s most dangerous air pollutant, PM2.5, is being cut to 10 µg/m³ by 2030.
🔥New Environmental Improvement Plan aims to reduce emissions at source.
👏Kudos to Emma Reynolds and Defra for setting ambitious targets.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
🔥New Environmental Improvement Plan aims to reduce emissions at source.
👏Kudos to Emma Reynolds and Defra for setting ambitious targets.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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I am in the process of writing an expanded response to today's Environmental Improvement Plan published by the UK Government, which includes some broad targets for improving the UK’s air quality.
But here are the main points:
But here are the main points:
Air quality scorecard:
❌Adopting WHO guidelines
❌Reducing meat and dairy
❌Reducing aviation
❌Reducing car traffic
❌Reducing shipping
❌Reducing incinerators
❌Enforcing regulations on wood burning
❌Indoor air quality support
Overall: Poor
The gov is avoiding all the real solutions for clean air.
❌Adopting WHO guidelines
❌Reducing meat and dairy
❌Reducing aviation
❌Reducing car traffic
❌Reducing shipping
❌Reducing incinerators
❌Enforcing regulations on wood burning
❌Indoor air quality support
Overall: Poor
The gov is avoiding all the real solutions for clean air.
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I am in the process of writing an expanded response to today's Environmental Improvement Plan published by the UK Government, which includes some broad targets for improving the UK’s air quality.
But here are the main points:
But here are the main points:
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The Government measures its progress on pollution against the wrong standards.
Ella’s Law would bring UK clean air targets in line with the World Health Organisation’s.
The Government must make more time in Parliament for this Bill or adopt it in full.
Ella’s Law would bring UK clean air targets in line with the World Health Organisation’s.
The Government must make more time in Parliament for this Bill or adopt it in full.
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"
December 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The Government measures its progress on pollution against the wrong standards.
Ella’s Law would bring UK clean air targets in line with the World Health Organisation’s.
The Government must make more time in Parliament for this Bill or adopt it in full.
Ella’s Law would bring UK clean air targets in line with the World Health Organisation’s.
The Government must make more time in Parliament for this Bill or adopt it in full.
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How much #AirPollution is created when you burn wood?
👉 Defra approved/#Ecodesign stove = 400 times more polluting than a gas boiler.
👉 Open fire = 4000 times more polluting than a gas boiler.
Please think twice about burning if you don't need to.
#WoodBurning
👉 Defra approved/#Ecodesign stove = 400 times more polluting than a gas boiler.
👉 Open fire = 4000 times more polluting than a gas boiler.
Please think twice about burning if you don't need to.
#WoodBurning
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
How much #AirPollution is created when you burn wood?
👉 Defra approved/#Ecodesign stove = 400 times more polluting than a gas boiler.
👉 Open fire = 4000 times more polluting than a gas boiler.
Please think twice about burning if you don't need to.
#WoodBurning
👉 Defra approved/#Ecodesign stove = 400 times more polluting than a gas boiler.
👉 Open fire = 4000 times more polluting than a gas boiler.
Please think twice about burning if you don't need to.
#WoodBurning
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New research shows a link between the use of solid fuels at home and reduced lung function in people as they age. Read more here tinyurl.com/55v3wuh9 #woodburning
#pollution
#airpollution
#lung
#lungfunction
#pollution
#airpollution
#lung
#lungfunction
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
New research shows a link between the use of solid fuels at home and reduced lung function in people as they age. Read more here tinyurl.com/55v3wuh9 #woodburning
#pollution
#airpollution
#lung
#lungfunction
#pollution
#airpollution
#lung
#lungfunction
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Hope they actually enforce the limits in the EIP for solid fuel burning. The reduction from 5g to 3g of “smoke” per hour should rule out the use of “Ecodesign” stoves in Smoke Control Areas!
Green groups hope that the long-awaited revised Environmental Improvement Plan #EIP will offer a reset from the government after a ‘really difficult few months’ for nature...
So what can we expect?
Read now ➡️ www.endsreport.com/article/1941...
So what can we expect?
Read now ➡️ www.endsreport.com/article/1941...
‘Judgement day’: What to look out for as revised Environmental Improvement Plan due imminently
Green groups hope that the long-awaited revised Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) will offer a reset from the government after a ‘really difficult few months’ for nature, with the Wildlife Trusts t...
www.endsreport.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hope they actually enforce the limits in the EIP for solid fuel burning. The reduction from 5g to 3g of “smoke” per hour should rule out the use of “Ecodesign” stoves in Smoke Control Areas!
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“More than 120,000 children went to hospital in 2024 struggling for breath, and each of these children was affected by the dirty air they continue breathe across our great city.”
Mums for Lungs are calling for the Mayor of London to ask Londoners not to use their wood burners, unless they need to.
Mums for Lungs are calling for the Mayor of London to ask Londoners not to use their wood burners, unless they need to.
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“More than 120,000 children went to hospital in 2024 struggling for breath, and each of these children was affected by the dirty air they continue breathe across our great city.”
Mums for Lungs are calling for the Mayor of London to ask Londoners not to use their wood burners, unless they need to.
Mums for Lungs are calling for the Mayor of London to ask Londoners not to use their wood burners, unless they need to.
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Very obvious to everyone that Charnwood don't care about health and safety for anyone. Unfortunately HSE aren't interested in HETAS failures or dangerous emissions from "Ecodesign" stoves. There are no protections for those of us hospitalised by their toxic appliances!
Here at the DSI we believe this case adds to a growing pattern of concerns surrounding Charnwood and the wider wood-burning sector. In our view, this raises questions about the strength of its internal safety culture.
deathstoveindustry.substack.com/p/charnwood-...
deathstoveindustry.substack.com/p/charnwood-...
Charnwood Stoves fined £200,000 as worker loses foot in 2nd serious workplace accident in 4 years
The UK wood‑stove maker has been hit with a £200,000 fine after a devastating factory accident led to a worker losing a foot in 2023
deathstoveindustry.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Very obvious to everyone that Charnwood don't care about health and safety for anyone. Unfortunately HSE aren't interested in HETAS failures or dangerous emissions from "Ecodesign" stoves. There are no protections for those of us hospitalised by their toxic appliances!
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Join us and AWAIR on Sunday (30th) for a free Walk & Talk exploring local #AirPollution displays in Gipsy Hill.
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Join us and AWAIR on Sunday (30th) for a free Walk & Talk exploring local #AirPollution displays in Gipsy Hill.
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
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A month today, Father Christmas will be busy squeezing down chimneys.
Did you know that burning wood produces benzene, formaldehyde, arsenic, mercury (& more)?
Help us protect Father C's lungs; please don't burn if you don't need to 🙏 .
www.dsawsp.org/health/wood-...
Did you know that burning wood produces benzene, formaldehyde, arsenic, mercury (& more)?
Help us protect Father C's lungs; please don't burn if you don't need to 🙏 .
www.dsawsp.org/health/wood-...
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A month today, Father Christmas will be busy squeezing down chimneys.
Did you know that burning wood produces benzene, formaldehyde, arsenic, mercury (& more)?
Help us protect Father C's lungs; please don't burn if you don't need to 🙏 .
www.dsawsp.org/health/wood-...
Did you know that burning wood produces benzene, formaldehyde, arsenic, mercury (& more)?
Help us protect Father C's lungs; please don't burn if you don't need to 🙏 .
www.dsawsp.org/health/wood-...
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Have you been looking around primary schools recently?
When looking, have you thought about #AirPollution and the impact of how you travel to a particular school?
Can you choose a school you can walk, scoot, cycle or wheel to? You'll be making that journey around 2,730 times over the next 7 years!
When looking, have you thought about #AirPollution and the impact of how you travel to a particular school?
Can you choose a school you can walk, scoot, cycle or wheel to? You'll be making that journey around 2,730 times over the next 7 years!
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Have you been looking around primary schools recently?
When looking, have you thought about #AirPollution and the impact of how you travel to a particular school?
Can you choose a school you can walk, scoot, cycle or wheel to? You'll be making that journey around 2,730 times over the next 7 years!
When looking, have you thought about #AirPollution and the impact of how you travel to a particular school?
Can you choose a school you can walk, scoot, cycle or wheel to? You'll be making that journey around 2,730 times over the next 7 years!
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Burning creates #AirPollution whether you're using dry wood, smokeless fuel or an Ecodesign stove. This University of Surrey study discovered multifuel Ecodesign stoves emit more ultrafine particles than standard Ecodesign stoves. #WoodBurning #Health
The hidden health risks of wood-burning and eco stoves in homes | University of Surrey
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November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Burning creates #AirPollution whether you're using dry wood, smokeless fuel or an Ecodesign stove. This University of Surrey study discovered multifuel Ecodesign stoves emit more ultrafine particles than standard Ecodesign stoves. #WoodBurning #Health
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69% of adults find it unacceptable that there may still be cars in the UK with #Dieselgate emissions defeat technology fitted.
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. Government needs to step up and make car manufacturers fund the recall of cars failing emissions testing.
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. Government needs to step up and make car manufacturers fund the recall of cars failing emissions testing.
Public do not trust car manufacturers as new Dieselgate case begins in High Court | ClientEarth
New polling shows the British public want accountability.
www.clientearth.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
69% of adults find it unacceptable that there may still be cars in the UK with #Dieselgate emissions defeat technology fitted.
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. Government needs to step up and make car manufacturers fund the recall of cars failing emissions testing.
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. Government needs to step up and make car manufacturers fund the recall of cars failing emissions testing.
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Shocking that a government entity would post this. To be clear, there is no currently available method to burn wood without creating air pollution.
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Shocking that a government entity would post this. To be clear, there is no currently available method to burn wood without creating air pollution.
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“It’s hard to see why any government takes advice from an industry subject to this ban by the ASA. In Wales, where in the Valleys temperature inversion holds down pollution, the Stove Industry Association are major advisers.”
nation.cymru/news/welsh-g...
nation.cymru/news/welsh-g...
Welsh Government told to stop promoting wood burning stoves after regulator's ruling
Martin Shipton The Welsh Government should stop promoting woodburning stoves after the Advertising Standards Authority banned misleading adverts from the stove industry, according to a veteran environ...
nation.cymru
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“It’s hard to see why any government takes advice from an industry subject to this ban by the ASA. In Wales, where in the Valleys temperature inversion holds down pollution, the Stove Industry Association are major advisers.”
nation.cymru/news/welsh-g...
nation.cymru/news/welsh-g...
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@hackneycouncil.bsky.social is urging residents to give up wood burning and tackle London’s air pollution. Read what Cllr Sarah Young has to say here. woodburning.london/2025/11/19/h... #woodburning
#pollution
#airpollution
#hackney
#hackneycouncil
#pollution
#airpollution
#hackney
#hackneycouncil
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
@hackneycouncil.bsky.social is urging residents to give up wood burning and tackle London’s air pollution. Read what Cllr Sarah Young has to say here. woodburning.london/2025/11/19/h... #woodburning
#pollution
#airpollution
#hackney
#hackneycouncil
#pollution
#airpollution
#hackney
#hackneycouncil
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It's been nearly six weeks since the #Dieselgate trial began. This week, the High Court was told that about a million Ford diesel cars were sold in the UK with defective emissions controls. Many of those cars were never formally recalled or fixed; we are long overdue a manufacturer-funded recall.
About 1m Ford diesel cars sold in UK with defective emissions controls, court told
Ford denies having created ‘defeat devices’ in legal action on behalf of 1.6 million owners against five carmakers
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's been nearly six weeks since the #Dieselgate trial began. This week, the High Court was told that about a million Ford diesel cars were sold in the UK with defective emissions controls. Many of those cars were never formally recalled or fixed; we are long overdue a manufacturer-funded recall.
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The effects of wood burning go far beyond physical symptoms.
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The effects of wood burning go far beyond physical symptoms.
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According to child mortality data (2020-2024) 54 Children and Young People died from asthma and anaphylaxis. The deaths were linked to air pollution. According to @ “30,000 people die annually due to air pollution” (2025).
Ella's Law, which would make breathing #cleanair a human right, will not likely have its second reading next week.
Yesterday I asked if the Government will make more time in Parliament for this vital Bill to be debated and made law.
Yesterday I asked if the Government will make more time in Parliament for this vital Bill to be debated and made law.
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
According to child mortality data (2020-2024) 54 Children and Young People died from asthma and anaphylaxis. The deaths were linked to air pollution. According to @ “30,000 people die annually due to air pollution” (2025).
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🔥Wood burners produce fine particulate pollution (PM2.5), which has severe effects on people’s health.
🫁PM2.5 particles are inhaled deep into the lungs, where they pass into the bloodstream.
https://urbanhealth.org.uk/insights/news/woodburning-health-effects
🫁PM2.5 particles are inhaled deep into the lungs, where they pass into the bloodstream.
https://urbanhealth.org.uk/insights/news/woodburning-health-effects
How does burning wood affect our health?
The outdoor air pollution caused by domestic burning is linked to 2,490 deaths annually. New research shows that reducing wood burning in homes could deliver massive health and economic benefits acros...
urbanhealth.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🔥Wood burners produce fine particulate pollution (PM2.5), which has severe effects on people’s health.
🫁PM2.5 particles are inhaled deep into the lungs, where they pass into the bloodstream.
https://urbanhealth.org.uk/insights/news/woodburning-health-effects
🫁PM2.5 particles are inhaled deep into the lungs, where they pass into the bloodstream.
https://urbanhealth.org.uk/insights/news/woodburning-health-effects
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New on our site: The Wood Stove Industry Tried to Silence a Health Campaign — and Lost
www.familiesforcleanair.org/the-wood-sto...
www.familiesforcleanair.org/the-wood-sto...
The Wood Stove Industry Tried to Silence a Health Campaign — and Lost
The Dutch wood stove industry tried to stop a public awareness campaign against wood burning by filing complaints with the country’s advertising regulator.
www.familiesforcleanair.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
New on our site: The Wood Stove Industry Tried to Silence a Health Campaign — and Lost
www.familiesforcleanair.org/the-wood-sto...
www.familiesforcleanair.org/the-wood-sto...
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69% of adults find it unacceptable that there may still be cars in the UK with #Dieselgate emissions defeat technology fitted.
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. "Where illegal activity is shown, the government needs to enforce recalls, paid for by manufacturers."
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. "Where illegal activity is shown, the government needs to enforce recalls, paid for by manufacturers."
Public do not trust car manufacturers as new Dieselgate case begins in High Court | ClientEarth
New polling shows the British public want accountability.
www.clientearth.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
69% of adults find it unacceptable that there may still be cars in the UK with #Dieselgate emissions defeat technology fitted.
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. "Where illegal activity is shown, the government needs to enforce recalls, paid for by manufacturers."
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. "Where illegal activity is shown, the government needs to enforce recalls, paid for by manufacturers."