This first month of the year, London needed only seven days to breach pollution limits set by the EU for all of 2016. Between January 1 and the end of last week, levels of NO2 (nitrogen-dioxide gas, a pollutant linked to 5,900 London deaths in 2010) had already exceeded the limit of 200 milligrams per-cubic-meter more than 18 times on southwest
London Already Exceeded Pollution Limits For 2016
Some areas have nitrogen-dioxide levels on par with Beijing and Shanghai.
