rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/the-east-sussex-cleaner-air-charter?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-the-east-sussex-cleaner-air-charter' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Eastbourne and District Friends of the Earth https://actionnetwork.org/groups/eastbourne-and-district-friends-of-the-earth https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/111/707/normal/20180621_113833.jpg Charter for Cleaner Air We all have a right to breathe clean air. However, across the UK illegal, and here in East Sussex harmful, levels of air pollution are damaging people’s health and their quality of life and cutting lives short. It doesn’t have to be this way. Together we are calling on the UK Government to put the health of our communities first: Show national leadership in removing the most polluting vehicles from the most polluted parts of our towns and cities to protect people’s health. Provide greater investment in public transport, walking and cycling infrastructure to give people real alternatives. End the sale of all new petrol and diesel cars and vans earlier than 2040. Revise the tax regime and provide fiscal incentives to help people and businesses adopt cleaner vehicles. Accelerate the zero emission revolution by investing in charging infrastructure and the supporting power network. Ensure fossil fuels do not generate the power used to fuel electrified vehicles. Tighten legal limits on air pollution to match safer WHO guideline levels. Improve the national monitoring and modelling of air pollution to show the true extent of the problem. Adopt a new Clean Air Act or equivalent fit for the 21st Century backed by an independent watchdog with teeth. Launch a national public health campaign and alert system to highlight the dangers of air pollution. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/the-east-sussex-cleaner-air-charter