Highveld Priority News Today

Life After Coal says that the conditions placed on Eskom to allow it to bypass sulphur dioxide emissions requirements at Kusile are weak.

A high court has granted Minister Barbara Creecy leave to appeal aspects of a judgment related to the air pollution in the Highveld Priority Area.

Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape tops the list of 15 least polluted regional cities in Africa, a report shows. The city meets the World Health Organisation's air quality guidelines.

Judgment has been reserved on Minister Barbara Creecy's application for leave to appeal aspects of a previous ruling regarding poor air quality in the Highveld Priority Area.

President Ramaphosa’s energy crisis plan ignores the toxic air pollution spewed forth by coal power stations we’re now trying to fix.

Sources of air pollution in South Africa are diverse and complex, but major focus is placed on industrial emissions.

There is "no evidence of a safe level of exposure or a threshold below which no adverse health effects occur", says environmental epidemiologist Rico Euripidou on the impacts of a coal mine fire that has been burning for weeks.

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Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has gone on the attack, challenging the authority of the high court to force her to make new regulations to reduce harmful levels of air pollution on the Highveld. Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has gone on...

Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Barbara Creecy has filed leave to appeal certain orders in the deadly air judgment.