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 # The War Against London's Killer Pollution Can Be Won

 

##### Bold action is now needed, as in New York, where air quality is at its cleanest in 50 years

 

 

 May 8, 2017 3:40 PM ET

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[Michael R Bloomberg: The war against London’s killer pollution can be won](http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/michael-r-bloomberg-the-war-against-london-s-killer-pollution-can-be-won-a3528351.html)

Originally published at [www.standard.co.uk](http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/michael-r-bloomberg-the-war-against-london-s-killer-pollution-can-be-won-a3528351.html)

Today, few city dwellers around the world consider air pollution a laughing matter, and they are rightly demanding that their governments take action to reduce it. The UK, where nitrogen oxide and soot-like particulate matter have reached emergency levels, has a chance to become a global leader on the issue.

[Pollution ](http://www.standard.co.uk/topic/pollution)kills 40,000 British people every year before their time, about a quarter of them in [London](http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london). That is a veritable public-health crisis — and as Londoners know, it has been getting worse. Earlier this year, London’s air quality fell below [Beijing](http://www.standard.co.uk/topic/beijing)’s. The environmental activists who placed the masks on statues around London created an unnecessary public nuisance, but it was impossible to argue with their point.

Heavy pollution also saddles taxpayers with several billion pounds a year in healthcare costs. And it reduces London’s attractiveness to foreign companies at a time when,as a result of [Brexit](http://www.standard.co.uk/topic/brexit), its competitiveness is being challenged by other financial capitals.   
  
To read the full article, [click here](http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/michael-r-bloomberg-the-war-against-london-s-killer-pollution-can-be-won-a3528351.html).



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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