{"id":227782,"date":"2025-10-27T07:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227782\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:43:07","slug":"air-pollution-oxford-leading-the-way-with-new-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227782\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Pollution: Oxford &#8216;leading the way&#8217; with new target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council&#8217;s existing target of 30 \u00b5g\/m\u00b3 was set in 2021, and the authority said it was on track to meet it by the end of this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a report, the council said that air pollution contributed to &#8220;millions of deaths and years of healthy life lost each year&#8221; around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council stated its &#8220;main priorities&#8221; for 2026-2030 were &#8220;continuing the reduction of transport emissions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It pointed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c626z1r0rg3o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traffic filters<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-oxfordshire-60429261\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">workplace parking levy<\/a>, and the expansion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj4814zg89lo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">zero emission zone<\/a>, as three schemes led by Oxfordshire County Council that would improve air quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council&#8217;s existing target of 30 \u00b5g\/m\u00b3 was set in 2021, and the authority said it was on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-227782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}