Air Pollution

The fight is on to prevent Lawrence Hill gas power station

Power plant proposed for next to primary school in inner-city Lawrence Hill, yet again.

Plutus Energy lose appeal to build Lawrence Hill power station

Community campaigners rejoice after 18-month effort to stop polluters moving into Lawrence Hill.

Air quality: Blue sky thinking?

UWE Bristol researchers are creating a ‘toolkit’ for radical, citizen-led action on air pollution.

Our 2016 favourites: Cable news

A few of the Cable’s favourite news articles that we’ve worked on in 2016.

Campaigners win power station battle

Calls for a ‘no-burn’ policy on fuel generation within the city following tense campaign to protect air quality in Lawrence Hill.

Decision time for Lawrence Hill power station

Planning committee to vote on plan labeled ‘environmental racism’ and a ‘subsidy cash machine’ tomorrow, amid vehement opposition.

Lawrence Hill power station: council denies further air quality studies

Despite levels of air pollution in the area breaching EU legal requirements, campaigners’ calls for more studies on the plant’s impact have been denied.

“Underhand and sneaky”: Plutus Energy plan new power station

Energy company make second attempt to build an inner city power station in the city’s most deprived ward.

Bristol’s invisible killer

What kills twenty times more people than road traffic collisions, and is second only to smoking as a cause of death?