London Fails EU Annual Pollution Limits Eight Days Into 2016
- Putney High Street exceeds nitrogen dioxide limits 19 times
- London has been in breach of EU air quality rules since 2010
Nineteen times this year, the concentration of nitrogen dioxide has exceeded the EU limit of 200 micrograms per cubic meter as an hourly mean.
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London failed annual European Union limits on air pollution just eight days into 2016, data from the capital’s main air quality monitor show.
Nineteen times this year, the concentration of nitrogen dioxide on Putney High Street in Wandsworth, west London, has exceeded the EU limit of 200 micrograms per cubic meter as an hourly mean, according to provisional data on King’s College London’s Air Quality Network website. That compares with an annual limit of 18 “exceedances” set by the EU.