London London reaches legal air pollution limit just one month into the new year Timing is a significant improvement, due in part to mayor’s measures, but campaigners say national government must ‘get a grip’ on toxic air Brixton Road, Lambeth, has reached legal limits for air pollution. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the GuardianAir pollution in London has reached the legal limit for the whole of 2018 less than a month into the year, prompting calls for the government to “get a grip and show they’re serious about protecting health”. Clean air plans put forward by ministers have already twice been declared illegal at the high court for failing to cut air pollution in the “shortest time possible”, as EU law requires. Read moreModern air pollution records for London began 18 years ago and Khan said this is the first time London went almost a month before reaching the legal limits: “This shows the measures we have already taken in the capital are beginning to take effect. Air quality has also improved on Oxford Street, which broke the annual limit in just five days in 2015.

Source: The Guardian January 30, 2018 12:18 UTC