Last month, mayor Sadiq Khan also announced the London-wide expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) next year. “On the eve of the 70 th anniversary of the Great Smog, we should learn its greatest lesson, which is to take action!” the Baroness told peers. The legislation has been put forward by the Green Party peer Baroness Jenny Jones and will now go onto the House of Commons. to have air pollution listed as a cause of death, and would establish the right to breathe clean air. It is also known as Ella’s Law, after Ella Kissi-Debrah, the first person in the U.K. Only last week (2 December), the Clean Air Bill passed through its third reading in the House of Lords. There have been some notable recent developments in the fight for clean air. “Just because the particles are smaller and invisible to the naked eye, doesn’t make them any less harmful,” added Hudson. He said people are therefore more likely to undertake highly polluting practices, like wood burning stoves under the false conception that it's cheaper to heat their home. “The Great Smog shows some parallels to today, as back then they were burning cheap coal to keep warm,” he added. Hudson added that while today’s air pollution cannot be directly compared to the Great Smog, because we now have different pollutants, it is still “extremely harmful”. Bettmann Archiveīen Hudson, head of insight and engagement at the charity Global Action Plan said while the Great Smog of London triggered important pieces of legislation, the UK still needs a modern-day clean air act, which includes targets aligned with World Health Organisation limits. The above view is along the famed Strand. The "Keller Smog" that has settled over 25 counties of Great Britain has slowed transportation to a crawl as the kingdom's first major weather blackout of autumn hangs with a deadly threat over the islands. Reports from Greenwich Observatory indicate a higher concentration of smoke and sulphur dioxide than was present in the "Great Fog" of last year in which an estimated 4,000 persons died. (Original Caption) Pedestrians walk slowly through the haze which almost completely obscures the.
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