Clean Air Act 1956
Books
- Five Days Without Sky London, 1952, and the Fog That Changed the World · Liszt Think
On December 5, 1952, an anticyclone trapped the smoke of a million coal fires over London. For five days, visibility fell to mere feet.
- The Power Station’s Unceasing Furnace…evere air pollution problem in London—whose 1954 report would lead to effective action. The Beaver Committee would eventually recommend the Clean Air Act 1956, the legislation that would begin, haltingly, to restructure Britain’s relationship with coal. That future could not be imagined from the c…
- The Minister’s Statement…the conversion of urgent demand into deliberative process, the protection of economic interests through the mechanism of studied delay. The Clean Air Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 52), enacted principally in response to London’s Great Smog of 1952, was sponsored by the Ministry of Housing and Local…
- The Principle of the Chimney…iamentary resolution into binding law. The King, prevented by illness from attending, authorized commissioners to signify his approval. The Clean Air Act 1956 entered the statute book as chapter 52 of the fourth and fifth years of Elizabeth II, its clauses now enforceable in the courts of England…