Jo on the BBC national news

Air quality made the national news today (2nd November 2016) following the announcement of the High Court ruling supporting ClientEarth's case against Defra's Air Quality Plan. Mr Justice Garnham agreed with ClientEarth that the Environment Secretary had failed to take measures that would bring the UK into compliance with the law “as soon as possible” and said that ministers knew that over optimistic pollution modelling was being used. In an interview for the BBC News at Ten and Radio 4 evening news AQMRC's Dr Jo Barnes highlighted the impact that this ruling could have for public health if Defra are required to rewrite the Plan: "This is, hopefully, going to affect the potential health impacts for thousands, tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people and, potentially, save lives ultimately."