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      <title>Pledge to make a difference this Clean Air Day</title>
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      <description>Birmingham City Council will celebrate Clean Air Day on 17 June with a week-long engagement event in the city centre, designed to encourage people to consider how they can help reduce air pollution.</description>
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      <title>Car Free School Streets are coming to Birmingham</title>
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      <description>A pioneering scheme that closes roads around schools to motorised traffic for up to an hour at the start and end of the school day is being piloted in Birmingham from this September.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:02:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Joint statement from Birmingham City Council and Leeds City Council regarding Clean Air Zone delays</title>
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      <description>The introduction of the UK’s first Clean Air Zones is to be significantly postponed due to a Government delay in delivering digital systems required to make the zones operational and enforceable. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>£15m, or 39%, of Clean Air Fund support earmarked for taxi drivers</title>
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      <description>Cllr Waseem Zaffar, cabinet member for transport and environment, explains why the city council has earmarked 39% of its Clean Air Fund support from government for taxi drivers</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Government approval for Birmingham Clean Air Zone plans</title>
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      <description>Birmingham City Council’s plan for a Clean Air Zone to help tackle the problem of air pollution in the city has received Government approval.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Council to consult on Clean Air Strategy for Birmingham</title>
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      <description>Cabinet is set to agree the launch of a consultation seeking the city’s input into a wide-ranging strategy to help deliver cleaner air across the whole of Birmingham.</description>
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      <title>Council publishes Full Business Case for Birmingham Clean Air Zone</title>
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      <description>Birmingham City Council has published its final proposals for a Clean Air Zone to help tackle the problem of air pollution in the city.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Clean Air Zone consultation plans to go before Cabinet</title>
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      <description>Cabinet is being asked to give the go-ahead for the council to consult on plans to reduce air pollution in Birmingham and protect the health of those who live and work in the city.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Cleaner cabs project scoops National Air Quality Award</title>
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      <description>A pioneering project to retrofit Hackney carriages in Birmingham with cleaner, greener LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) engines has won a national award.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Cleaner hydrogen buses to be given green light</title>
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      <description>Cabinet is being asked to approve a pilot scheme which will see at least 20 new cleaner, zero emission hydrogen-fuelled buses take to Birmingham’s roads. </description>
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