The Latest in Air Quality Action
Find out about the latest news in air quality and how EMSOL is working with key partners.
EMSOL wins Rushlight Award
Rushlight Environmental Analysis & Metrology Award presented to EMSOL EMSOL received the 2019/20 Rushlight Environmental Analysis Award which celebrates the significant achievements in developing the technology, innovation, and methods that underpin the accurate...
8 ways your local authority can improve air quality effectively
Local authorities play a critical role in improving air quality in their local areas. Not only do they have the legal power to actually do things, but they can act as a champion for the best way to do things in their area as well. Business and the community often look...
Croydon Selects EMSOL to Reduce Construction Site Emissions
Croydon needed a solution beyond monitoring which would enable them to take targeted action to improve air quality on construction sites. Learn how EMSOL delivers breach evidence attributed to specific vehicles so that Croydon and their partners can reduce emissions.
How to minimise the air quality impact of construction?
A new development can often be one of the most controversial issues that a community can face. With a need to build 300,000 new homes per year plenty of communities will feel the effects of new housing developments. One of the most obvious impacts is on the increase...
Air quality is all the rage
Air quality is all the rage Well, we would say this wouldn’t we? We are an air quality start-up company after all. But we think that it is fair to say that this time it is different. In our regular team catch ups, we have discussed this at length. Our team is a mix of...
What the Queens Speech means for air quality in the UK
Amongst all of the furore that is currently enveloping UK politics with elections and Brexit, the UK Government finally its policy proposals from improving air quality in the UK. The most relevant of all the announcements was a new Environment Bill, which promises to...
EMSOL monitoring air and noise quality within rail sector
Air and noise quality sensors installed in first of its kind project to take targeted action on pollution and reduce impact. EMSOL and East West Rail Alliance (EWRA) have partnered to deploy the EMSOL platform at Bletchley railway station. Four air quality sensors and...
UK Government announces £2 million of clean air funding for councils, how would you like to get hold of it?
[Update August 2020 - the funding mentioned in this round is no longer available, however, EMSOL is ready to work with local authorities to enable targeted action to improve pollution. Its time to stop just monitoring pollution, improve it. Read our case study (pdf)...
The case for action
[Updated August 2020 - COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the link between respiratory health issues and air quality with emerging evidence linking air pollution to an increased vulnerability to COVID-19. This requires urgent action to reduce congestion and maintain the...
Air quality action through persistence
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Barely a week goes by without some sort of environmental protest, it would seem. But last weeks really was something else. If the activists behind the recent climate strike are to be believed, an estimated 4 million people took part...
Should we be worried about air pollution on sunny days?
[Updated August 2020 - COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the link between respiratory health issues and air quality with emerging evidence linking air pollution to an increased vulnerability to COVID-19. With increasing temperatures that elevate poor air quality, this...
Banning high-polluting vehicles – is it worth it?
Not a week goes by without some sort of story that proposes a ban on some sort of vehicle as a way of tackling air quality issues. In addition to work on Clean Air Zones such as a new one proposed for Portsmouth, government committees have been having their say,...
Rail sector deploys EMSOL platform to understand air quality impact
[Update August 2020 – to hear more about how EMSOL worked with Network Rail at Birmingham New Street you can also listen to the webinar ‘Improving Air Quality in Rail‘ featuring speakers from Network Rail and HS2] Rail sector deploys EMSOL platform to understand air...
The railway air quality challenge
Hear more about the air quality challenge from HS2, Network Rail, and Chiltern Railways in our on-demand webinar. Air quality challenges that the railway industry faces Whenever you think of green transport, chances are you will think of the railways. Moving millions...
It’s coming…
Over the last few months, EMSOL has been working hard on its trial sites and behind the scenes to get our new air quality monitoring platform up and running. Now, after many hours of trialling, testing, improving, and doing the cycle all over again, our product is...
ULEZ – are you ready for it?
It can be easy to get yourself stuck in a bubble, and be shocked that many people are not aware of what you are aware of. It seems that everyone who is anyone in air quality circles has been talking about the imminent introduction of the Ultra Low Emission Zone in...
Making delivery easier
It’s another week, and there is another air quality story suggesting what actions local authorities should take to protect the most vulnerable groups in our society. This week, Public Health England suggested that idling should be banned outside of schools. With such...
Bringing the public with you
Having spent much of the earlier part of last week basking in the unseasonably warm weather, we were brought back to Earth with a bump today as we read the news that public awareness of low emissions zones is relatively poor. In recent research, 57% of adults did not...
New build shouldn’t mean new problems
A new housing development can often be one of the most controversial issues that a community can face. With a need to build 300,000 new homes per year, plenty of communities will feel the effects of new housing developments. One of the most obvious impacts is on the...
Is innovation in environmental protection finally being taken seriously?
There are some news items that genuinely take all of us here at EMSOL by surprise. We had such a news item pop into our inbox this week, with the announcement of innovation charity Nesta’s Grand Challenge on measuring air quality. This looks to set a new standard of...
Let’s talk about buses
It’s fair to say that we are into freight and logistics. Which is understandable given the backgrounds of our founders. But freight and logistics vehicles are not the only large vehicles that operate throughout our towns and cities. The backbone of the public...
How EMSOL can help local authorities with public health
As those of you who work in local authorities know, many Councils in the UK have a duty to improve the health of local people. Not improve public health as in the way that the NHS does it (treats you when you are ill), but to do all they can to improve the general...
Clean Air Strategy 2019: A load of hot air?
[Updated August 2020 - COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the link between respiratory health issues and air quality with emerging evidence linking air pollution to an increased vulnerability to COVID-19. This requires urgent action to reduce congestion and maintain the...
What does an electric future mean for EMSOL?
Over the last couple of weeks we have been talking a lot about the impact of Ultra Low Emission Zones on the EMSOL business. But another transport revolution is taking place that we would be want to ignore. That of the revolution in electric traction in all types of...
Future Scenarios for ULEZs
As we discussed in our article last week, Ultra-Low Emission Zones are becoming and increasingly-used weapon in the arsenal of local authorities to tackle poor air quality in their area. Whilst our preference at EMSOL is for a market-first approach to tackling air...
ULEZs and EMSOL – Are they are threat?
Ultra-Low Emission Zones are becoming an increasingly-used weapon in the arsenal of local authorities seeking to tackle poor air quality in their area. We have discussed these, and our preference for a market-first approach. But we at EMSOL accept that local...
What makes EMSOL different?
We have spoken over the last few months about the importance of air quality in our cities, and how local authorities are taking an increasing interest in this space. With over £5 billion spent annually by local authorities on Environmental Services, its a big...
Taking stock
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As alluded to in our post last week, it has been a crazy time over the last few weeks for us at EMSOL. A lot of people are getting excited by our product, we spent a lot of time preparing for the National Air Quality Conference, and...
Should the right to clean air be law?
Here at EMSOL, we of course believe that everyone should be able to breathe clean air. But this article, discussing whether or not this should be enshrined in law, caused a bit of debate. With the Clean Air Bill making its way through Parliament, perhaps it is...
When fluffy is meaningful
Whilst September has been a busy month for us, it is always worthwhile keeping track of what good work is being done in local communities across the UK to improve local air quality. We didn't have to look too far into this week, because right in our own backyard we...