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• Boris Johnson's diesel car scrappage scheme could cost £300m

  11 Sep 2014: Paying owners £2,000 to switch to cleaner models could take more than 150,000 polluting cars off London’s roads, mayor says
  

• The Guardian view on Britain’s aviation addiction, as Boris Johnson’s airport plan gets turned down

  2 Sep 2014: Editorial: The London mayor’s Thames estuary plan always lacked seriousness – but so does an entire debate which ignores the carbon costs of flying

• Boris Johnson: third runway at Heathrow would be a 'disaster'

  1 Sep 2014: Johnson is calling for new Thames estuary airport, saying Heathrow expansion would cause too much noise pollution

• CBI appears to back Heathrow over Gatwick for airport expansion

  1 Sep 2014: Report triggers controversy after press release appears to have been sent to Heathrow and back before being issued to rivals

• Heathrow boss urges Boris Johnson to back third runway

  29 Aug 2014: John Holland-Kaye appeals to London mayor, as Airports Commission prepares to decide fate of Thames estuary scheme

• London to get hybrid buses that could charge wirelessly

  28 Aug 2014: BusinessGreen: Transport for London trial to equip bus stops to boost batteries wirelessly when the buses arrive

• Nicaragua's trans-oceanic canal survey leaves residents fearful of losing homes

  27 Aug 2014: Property owners express concerns about unfair compensation as one of history's biggest infrastructure projects is launched
  

• Boris Johnson's Thames estuary airport hope could crash as early as next week

  26 Aug 2014: Gwyn Topham: Mayor submits report claiming hub would create thousands of jobs but commission may ditch plan no politician or airline wants

• Heathrow airport protesters revive Greenham Common spirit

  15 Aug 2014: 'There's a lot to do, but the threat of eviction is pretty stressful,' say opponents of third runway

• Heathrow expansion protesters vow to resist eviction

  15 Aug 2014: Grow Heathrow squatters will dig tunnels and use locks to stop bailiffs chasing them off land earmarked for third runway

• London air pollution: which mode of transport has the highest exposure? - video

  Video (6min 20sec), 12 Aug 2014:

  An exercise by King's College London and Camden council to monitor exposure to air pollution in London shows that travelling on foot or by bike exposes commuters to significantly fewer fumes than using a car or bus

• Heathrow and Gatwick bosses clash over rival expansion plans

  11 Aug 2014: Both airports seized on record passenger numbers as justification to expand and build controversial new runways

• Air traffic growth rates will outpace emission reductions, research shows

  8 Aug 2014: Plane ticket prices would need to rise by at least 1.4% a year for emission levels to fall, bucking trend of lower air fares

• Boris Johnson defends London's record on air pollution

  30 Jul 2014: ‘Like comparing apples with cucumbers’ to put London in same category as capitals such as Beijing, mayor’s adviser says

• Volvo and Renault lead way as electric car sales double in EU

  30 Jul 2014: 50,000 plug-in vehicles sold in 2013, up from 22,000 in 2012, but electric models still tiny fraction of all new cars sold

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