Alarmed at the lack of commitment on air quality on the part of the member states even though air pollution is the cause of 400,000 premature deaths every year in the EU, the NGO Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a joint call in Brussels on Tuesday 13 February to political decision makers and Europe more generally to take urgent action to improve the air that EU citizens breathe.
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