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Pollution Still Killing Thousands, 60 Years Since Clean Air Act
2016-07-05 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Clean Air Act, introduced 60 years ago, still does not prevent the death of thousands of people in Scotland. In a decisive and successful response to the Great Smog of 1952 that killed 12,000 people, the Clean Air Act of 1956 introduced controls on industrial pollution and the burning of coal. However, since the 1950s traffic levels have sky-rocketed and air pollution now claims over 2,500 lives in Scotland annually. Friends of the Earth Scotlands Air Pollution Campaigner, Emilia Hanna,...
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