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(...Happening now: Greenpeace volunteers (plus Mary Poppins!) are at Parliament telling govt to tackle toxic air pollution...)

I'm in the States and have been a member here for several years and during that time have often heard others who live in England make remarks about the London smog; here's a link and a bit of a blurb in today's Washington Post about air quality there, having already 'breached' their limit this year:

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"...According to European Union and British law, no single area is allowed to exceed the hourly limits — of 200 micrograms of NO2 per cubic meter of air — more than 18 times in a year. On Thursday night, an air-quality monitoring station on Brixton Road in south London breached the limit 19 times, reaching 347.7 ug/m3 at 9 p.m.

Clean Air in London, an advocacy group, said that Brixton Road reported 20 exceedances over a 24-hour period, which “could be a new world record for an official monitor...”

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We worry ( rightly) Meanwhile - in China!.......

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Sounds about right unfortunately but as Stillstanding says...in China! xxxx

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