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Do Cold Air Intakes Really Work?
2016-07-06 20:19:30| K&N Racing News
Cold air intakes have long been considered one of the easiest ways to add horsepower to a vehicle. But do they really work?
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,...
New Clean Air Act needed to tackle air pollution
2016-07-05 12:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: ClientEarth has today urged politicians to back calls for new Clean Air Act legislation to address the UK`s toxic air pollution levels. ClientEarth, the environmental lawyers who are taking the UK government back to court over its failure to deal with air pollution, have outlined details of the fresh legislation they believe is necessary. Proposals for a new Act come on the 60th anniversary of the introduction of the original Clean Air Act in 1956 and follow the referendum on 23rd June in which...
Life before the Clean Air Act - your memories and pictures
2016-07-05 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The great smog of 1952 swathed London in a toxic smog of pollution, resulting in thousands of deaths over a four-day period. The Clean Air Act was a groundbreaking piece of legislation that led to the phase-out of coal in Britains towns and cities. Sheila Romain, 88, West Sussex Coming home from school one day I caught the bus from Crystal Palace to Dulwich. When we got to Gypsy Hill the bus driver said he couldnt see well enough to go on. I got off knowing I could walk home. When the driver...
Saab, LFV to establish new company for remote air traffic control services
2016-07-05 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Defence and security company Saab has signed an agreement with Swedish air navigation service provider (ANSP) LFV to build a new company, named Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions.
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