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The special report in this issue is air quality monitoring, the foundations on which everything we do is built. In the report we look at both ends of the monitoring spectrum – from local authorities with their legal obligation to review and assess local air quality, to individual community groups with concerns about air quality issues on an even more localised scale.

The work the community groups do, their commitment to getting cleaner air in their neighbourhoods and the energy they bring to it is very encouraging. Particularly at a time when the foghorn press would have you believe that clean air zones are a diabolical plot to rob us of our freedom.

Coincidentally, two other features in the magazine mine a similar seam. The big interview is with Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb who was campaigning on environmental issues long before entering politics, where she has gone on to shake things up in the House of Lords.

Meanwhile, in our International feature, we speak to another very influential woman in the air quality landscape, Dominique Browning, founder of Moms Clean Air Force in the USA, an organisation that now has over 1.5m members.

Guest writers in this issue include Matt Hutchings KC, who has penned our legal feature from the perspective of being one of the founders of Lawyers Are Responsible, a group that has caused a bit of a furore of late, by refusing to follow the centuries-old cab rank rule on ethical grounds.

Dr Sanja Potgieter-Vermaark of Manchester Metropolitan University, who spoke at our Manchester conference in March, has been researching Living Green Walls and discusses their benefits, particularly as means of increasing Energy Performance Certificate ratings in retrofits. Regular contributor Martin Guttridge-Hewitt looks at the complexities of eliminating emissions from the supply chain in order to meet Scope 3 standards and the platforms that can help decision-makers to realise effective change.

When two-year-old Awaab Ishak died in December 2020 due to being exposed to an excessive amount of damp and mould in his Rochdale home, the county woke up to a problem that blighted 160,000 social homes. Following this up, Emily Whitehouse speaks to Rochdale Boroughwide Housing about their efforts to improve the standards of social housing and the associated quality of indoor air.

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