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    The Clean Air Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 52) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted principally in response to London's Great Smog...
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  • The Clean Air Act may refer to: Clean Air Act 1956, in the United Kingdom Clean Air Act (United States), 1963, with later amendments Clean Air Act 1972...
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    The Clean Air Act (CAA) is the United States' primary federal air quality law, intended to reduce and control air pollution nationwide. Initially enacted...
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    Great Smog of London (category Air pollution in the United Kingdom)
    relationship between air quality and health. It led to several changes in practices and regulations, including the Clean Air Act 1956. A period of unusually...
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    In Britain they became largely obsolete in major cities when the Clean Air Act 1956 forced a move toward oil and gas for home heating. The coal hole allowed...
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  • Pea soup fog (category Air pollution in the United Kingdom)
    1952 and resulted in the Clean Air Act 1956 and Clean Air Act 1968, both now repealed and consolidated into the Clean Air Act 1993, which were effective...
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    house, typically in a coal bunker. Briquette Clean Air Act of 1963 ยงย 1990 amendments Clean Air Act 1956 Coke (fuel), a smokeless fuel made by carbonizing...
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    other types of kiln, as the industry ceased to be coal-fired. The Clean Air Act 1956 marked the end of their use in the United Kingdom. A bottle kiln is...
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    many governments regarding what constitutes air pollution. For example, the United States Clean Air Act identifies ozone, particulate matter, carbon...
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    of 1952, which in turn triggered its own legislative response: the Clean Air Act 1956. The basic regulatory structure was to set limits on emissions for...
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    corrosive effects of London's severe air pollution, the infamous pea soup fog, prior to the passage of the Clean Air Act 1956. The statue was made in separate...
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  • for The Coroner's Act (1953), the Clean Air Act 1956, Thermal Insulation (Industrial Buildings) Act (1957), Oil Burners (Standards) Act (1960), and the...
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    after the thick yellow smogs for which London was famous until the Clean Air Act 1956. Soupe aux pois (jaunes) (yellow pea soup) is a traditional dish in...
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    that higher quality coal could be exported or used elsewhere. The Clean Air Act 1956 attempted to switch UK consumption away from this towards smokeless...
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    Britain was held on the South Bank. The Great Smog of 1952 led to the Clean Air Act 1956, which ended the "pea soup fogs" for which London had been notorious...
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    terrible air pollution, and this culminated in the "Great Smog" of 1952, which in turn triggered a legislative response: the Clean Air Act 1956. The basic...
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  • five days and killed over 4,000 people. In response to this, the Clean Air Act 1956 was passed, mandating the creating of "smokeless zones" where the...
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  • 1962 London smog (category Air pollution in the United Kingdom)
    which serious air pollution had killed as many as 12,000 people. While the 1952 smog had led to the passing of the 1956 Clean Air Act, which restricted...
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    Manchester were dark. The balance was reversed by the effect of the Clean Air Act 1956, and the dark moths became rare again, demonstrating the influence...
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    used coal either switched to using other fuels, often because of the Clean Air Act 1956, or closed completely. This period was the most destructive for former...
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    a standstill and may have caused upward of 6,000 deaths, that the Clean Air Act 1956 was passed and airborne pollution in the city was first tackled. Financial...
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    furniture and his child's toys. The heavy smog in the days before the Clean Air Act 1956 did little to help his health, about which he was reticent, keeping...
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    industry had moved away, partly as a result of the passing of the Clean Air Act 1956, but also helped by government grants to encourage companies to move...
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    Harold Macmillan (category Secretaries of State for Air (UK))
    out. The Clean Air Act 1956 was passed during his time as Chancellor; his premiership saw the passage of the Housing Act 1957, the Offices Act 1960, the...
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  • regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) under the Clean Air Act ("CAA" or "Act") from mobile and stationary sources of air pollution for the first time on January...
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    originally allocated to March depot in East Anglia, however due to the Clean Air Act 1956 the locomotives were quickly re-allocated to East London, allowing...
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    sunshine duration has increased in urban areas in recent years with the Clean Air Act 1956 and the area's heavy industry in decline. The English spoken today...
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  • Ohio v. EPA (category Air pollution in the United States)
    regarding the Clean Air Act. The United States Clean Air Act is a law intended to reduce the impacts of air pollution. In the Clean Air Act, there is a...
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    institute a program such as the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, Title VI of the IRA amended the Clean Air Act to explicitly designate carbon dioxide, hydrofluorocarbons...
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