IT'S OFFICIAL: judgment lands today in the #Diesel emissions trial. The diesel scandal isn't history - and the real scandal is that millions of illegally polluting cars are still on our roads today, making children sick. Watch our new film, then email our leaders demanding action. #AirPollution

The diesel scandal - still making our kids sick — Mums for Lungs

10th July 2026 Watch our new hard-hitting film about the diesel scandal and its impacts on children’s health.

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It's a disgrace that @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social has allowed the lake in #VictoriaPark to get like this. A heron, moorhens and coots wading through rubbish 😞

Breaking news | Official #CodeRed | Defra 'corrects' its written #AirPollution forecast for #SaharanDust after @cleanairlondon.bsky.social accuses them of public health failing or cover-up hours before @commonseac.parliament.uk inquiry closes cc @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social @barrygardiner.bsky.social

Huge thanks to our volunteers for putting up these posters to help shine a light on the uncomfortable facts about #WoodBurning. Here's a selection from London, Sheffield and Manchester. Can you think twice about burning? #CleanAirNight

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-...

Please support the proposed expansion of the #SchoolStreets Zone at Whybridge Infant and Junior and The Brittons Academy Schools. Deadline next Monday, 1st December. #Havering #AirPollution

Ruth Kettle-Frisby 🍉 ☮️ 🧡@ruthyphro.bsky.social · 10mo ago

School Streets should be encouraged for our children's health and wellbeing. The current level of congestion outside schools is completely unsustainable. @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @sustrans.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social @cyclehavering.bsky.social thehaveringdaily.co.uk/2025/11/24/w...

I gave a speech in Wandsworth High Street about air pollution and the benefits of cycling Stay to the end to see a list of proposals to make the air cleaner and the community stronger @wandsworthcycling.bsky.social @wandsworthlabour.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth @londoncycling.bsky.social

Shocking new research by @clientearth.bsky.social & @creacleanair.bsky.social reveals the #Health effects of excess NOx #AirPollution emissions in the UK. Reminder: these emissions come from Euro 5&6 #Diesel cars emitting suspiciously high levels of pollution. Millions are still on our roads.

Dieselgate pollution killed 16,000 people in UK, study estimates

Experts decry lack of UK government action and warn a further 6,000 early deaths could occur

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EU Member States have highlighted their commitment to protecting children’s health by adopting new binding #AirPollution targets. When will our Labour government afford the same #Health protections to our children @emmahardymp.bsky.social?

Wake up @mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy and #DESNZ, you're allowing the stove industry to pressurise the UK Govt into harming the #health of our communities in favour of profits. #Woodburning is poisoning us. We need it stopped completely, not for you to add another rainforest to the fire!

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Our letter to @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @emmahardymp.bsky.social & others, asking them to rethink allowing #WoodBurning stoves in new builds. Thanks to the many others who co-signed, and to @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social, Prof Jill Belch & Prof Sir Stephen Holgate for adding their voices.

NEW: School Streets webinar, Monday 28th April at 8pm. Come and find out about #SchoolStreets and how to get one set up at your school. We want to support you wherever you are - please join the discussion!

Mums for Lungs: School Streets Webinar

Please join us to find out more about School Streets and how to campaign for one at your school.

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Wood burning is "a luxury we cannot afford". At the @globalactionplan.bsky.social event on domestic wood burning today. 200,000 #woodburners are installed every year. Every single one pumps #PM2.5 into the wider community, with devastating consequences. Thanks to @mumsforlungs.bsky.social 🫶

A thread on the poor state of Defra’s #AirQuality Index, which tells the public about #AirPollution levels & provides recommendations & health advice. Spoiler: we’re being falsely reassured, undermining the calls for action to address the #Health effects of air pollution. 👇👇👇

⚡⚡High #AirPollution alert in London ⚡⚡ We are experiencing high levels of particulate matter in London today. Please don't drive or burn. uk-air.defra.gov.uk Join our schools #AirPollution alert system (London only) if you'd like us to send you info on high pollution days: bit.ly/pollutionalert

Why is nobody talking about the absolutely insane levels of air pollution today? @theguardian.com @jeremyvine.bsky.social @thetimes.com @thetelegraph.bsky.social Why is it so bad right now and how should people be adjusting their behaviour to protect themselves?

Truly unbelievable from @ukgovernment.bsky.social

Mums for Lungs@mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 2y ago

Is it right that a government department sponsored an award for an organisation that successfully lobbied to reverse emissions reduction legislation? The more frightening "existential threat" mentioned here is to Scotland's future #Climate & #Health. #WoodBurning @adamvaughan.bsky.social

NEW: Car manufacturers want to hide the truth about their dirty diesel emissions. Along with MPs, over 50 major charities & organisations and hundreds of individuals, we demand court documents are made public. #Dieselgate #AirPollution

Biggest class action ever in court as campaigners demand Dieselgate documents

It comes a decade on from ‘dieselgate’ - the 2015 scandal Volkswagen admitted as many as 11 million of their cars had ‘defeat’ software to manipulate the tests

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"What we witnessed today was bullying from one of the most powerful men in the world. Now is the time to make clear we, as a country, stand with Zelensky in working for a lasting just peace." See my full statement here: greenparty.org.uk/2025/02/28/n...

"I'm aligned with the world" Apart from the lifelong pattern of failing to conform to social norms and laws 😑

Vance blew up that meeting on purpose

The absolute spin from The White House after the Zelensky meeting is wild. What an embarrassment to the US Trump and Vance are, and yet Lindsey Graham calling for Zelensky to resign!

Last day to sign! Go on, do it for the kids 🧸

Mums for Lungs@mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚘 Three days left to sign! 🚘 Over 500 individuals and organisations have signed our open letter to the judge on the Dieselgate class action 🙏. Ten years after Dieselgate, we still have cars on our roads emitting suspiciously high levels of air pollution. Sign and share!

Please do sign folks. We need to hold these Diesel dirt bags to account 🙏🏼

Mums for Lungs@mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚘 💨 Remember #Dieselgate? That was 10 years ago. 💨 🚘 Diesel cars fitted with defeat devices are still on our roads today. We believe the public needs to know what we're breathing - please sign our letter if you agree. https://buff.ly/4hxAJZx #AirPollution #Diesel

Excellent to meet @gwynnemp.bsky.social at the fantastic new #SchoolStreet at Acacias Community Primary School in Burnage, #Manchester today. We discussed the need for camera-enforced School Streets across GM, and the need to tackle #AirPollution from wood burning. We ❤️ School Streets! #Health

HEATHROW EXPANSION? What might that do to air quality of Londoners? Let's do a deep dive... 🧵

Had a flu jab back in November. Good job because like much of the UK, I've had the #flu the last week. Can't even imagine how dreadful it would be without the vaccination, because it has been a very grim grind to get over the worst of it. Time will tell if my household has escaped unscathed 🙏

How my parents interpreted the challenge: 'paint me like one of your French girls' (the subject was my sister) 🫠

Christmas. Exhausting. Who has time for telly on Christmas Day?! Boxing day, I'm coming for you!

Any recommendations on good (great?!) short courses to develop leadership skills? Bonus points if they are aimed at women 🙏

Bleak watching this morning 😞