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Friends of the Earth to take Stormont to court over ‘air quality failings’
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ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners are set to take a Stormont department to court over alleged air-quality failings.

Friends of the Earth has teamed up with The Pils Project for a legal challenge at the High Court in Belfast against the Department for Infrastructure.

They said that the case is in relation to a long-running and dangerous air-quality failing.

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