London Exceeds EU’s Annual Pollution Goal Four Months Into Year
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London, which hosts the Olympic Games in 2012, today exceeded annual limits set by the European Union for air pollution less than four months into the year.
At London’s Marylebone Road monitoring station, the number of “days in exceedance,” when particle pollution levels breach permitted limits, reached 36 today, according to the London Air Quality Network website. That’s more than the 35 failures permitted for the entire year under EU rules. The so-called PM10 particles measured derive mainly from vehicles, factories and construction.