Updates

We are delighted to open entries for the 2023 Ian McCrae Award essay competition to professionals in our Early Careers Network. The IAQM acts as the voice of air quality in the UK, and this competition, judged by industry professionals, supports tomorrow’s leaders in their professional development.Dr Ian McCrae was a very well-respected and widely liked air ...

The Environment Agency closed its Review of Environmental Assessment Levels (EALs) for emissions to air: second phase consultation on the 20th June. The Environment Agency uses EALs to judge the acceptability of proposed emissions to air from industrial sites, and their relative contribution to the environment. EALs represent a pollutant concentration in ambient air at which ...

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities closed its consultation on the Environmental Outcomes Reports on the 9th June. This consultation related to Part 6 of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill which will secure powers to implement a new system of environmental assessment known as Environmental Outcomes Reports. This will replace the EU-derived Strategic ...

In 2022 the IAQM launched a Climate Change Working Group, with the aim to explore how air quality and climate change issues can be more closely integrated and how members can be supported and engaged on this topic. As part of this work the Working Group is publishing a series of Insights Articles to stimulate ...

The IAQM has published a briefing paper on air quality policy to support the IAQM membership in understanding and engaging with policy developments in the sector.This is a briefing paper on policy relating to air pollution and indoor and ambient air quality. In recent years, the importance of air pollution has been increasingly recognised, with ...

Defra closed its consultation on the draft revised Air Quality Strategy on the 21st April, after opening on the 11th April. Comments received in the consultation will be used to to help inform the final Air Quality Strategy due to be published later this year. The Air Quality Strategy sets out the actions the government expects ...