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I've just read that, between 2007 and 2015, "levels of nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide (in the UK) have dropped by about 40% and 60% respectively". Source: The Times, 28 July 2017, page 19. I assume this reduction is mainly a result of the closure of coal-fired power stations but it seems at odds with the current concern about nitrogen oxides in diesel exhaust. Does anyone have more information? Roberttherambler (talk) 22:28, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I can see this article could benefit from a huge investment of work. A few quick suggestions (and I may work on some of these myself in the future):

• History: Worth explaining that industrial air pollution didn't begin in the UK and with the Industrial Revolution. Put the UK in a global context. Much early history documented by Brimblecombe and Mosley. Some coverage of J. Evelyn's landmark "Fumifugium". Significance of the gradual switch from domestic coal to electricity and how that changed pollution into very different problems (coupled with urbanization). Rollo Russell and London fogs. How Great London Smog led to Clean Air Act (1956) - not mentioned at all in the body of this article (amazingly).
• Legislation: Really need a whole section on this, beginning with Smoke Nuisance Abatement Act (1821) and going right through to current calls for a new clean air act - probably mentioning things like Client Earth campaigning, relevance of EU laws during UK's 40-year membership.
• Campaigning: Maybe a section on this? All kinds of active groups now - from the older groups like FoE to newer outfits like Mums for Lungs, Choked Up, and effective individuals like Rosamund Kissi-Debrah.
• London - should mention the LAQN. I have proposed a Wiki article on Gary Fuller or maybe there should be one about LAQN itself. Someone mention of Clean Air in London (Simon Birkett), Breathe London. Maybe some mention of how London's pollution is "exported" to places like Dartford...
• Sources of pollution in the UK - and their changing pattern (e.g. the shift from industry/power emissions to problems like diesel traffic, relatively neglected emissions such as ammonia from agriculture...) Changing status of different pollutants in the UK: How some things (SO2) have cleaned up and others (ozone, particulates...) have worsened.

Just a few things to be going on with. 45154james (talk) 09:57, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]