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Over 1000 UK Childcare Centers Close Doors Due To High Levels Of Air Pollution

Tower Bridge and Canary Wharf, are just visible through the haze and smog in London, Friday, April 10, 2015. (AP/Alastair Grant)
More than 1,000 nurseries across England are within 150m of a road breaching legal air pollution limits, a major investigation by Energydesk and the Guardian has revealed.
The news comes just weeks before the government’s legally mandated deadline to produce new plans for tackling the UK’s dangerously poor air quality, after its existing strategy was found by the High Court to be inadequate and overly optimistic.