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Air pollution prevention and control in UK
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Table of contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Sources of NOx Pollution in UK.....................................................................................................3
Effect of the NOx Pollution in UK..................................................................................................6
National air quality law and policy introduced in UK.....................................................................7
Trends in the concentrations of NO and NO2.................................................................................9
How the Nox concentrations are changing in the near future?......................................................12
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................12
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................13
Reference list and bibliography.....................................................................................................14

Introduction
NOx pollution has become the burning topic in the 21st century. It is true that UK has developed
its own PPC version as the Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) through the application of
Environmental protection Act 1990, however recently the current regime of PPC has stopped
from 1996 EC Directives (Gov.uk 2020). The government has started introducing various
controlling laws that can generate the better air quality in the country. On the other hand, the
Industrial Emissions Detective has been introduced for improvising the PPC regulations in UK.
In the UK context pollution prevention and control has become the integrated approach that can
significantly manage the environment impacts. The purpose of this study is to develop the report
based on the context of NOx Pollution prevention and control in UK. Here critically analyzing
the factors as well as changing prevention initiatives adopted in UK by referring some statistical
information. In the end of this study, some recommendations have been provide that can
introduce betterment while dealing with the NOx Pollution.
Sources of NOx Pollution in UK
The industrial, domestic and traffic sources play important role for influencing the air
contamination process in UK. However, in case of identifying the causes of NOx Pollution
different authors have shared their different thoughts where some of them has mentioned energy
sector as the major influencing factor, some of them has mentioned the traffic as the major
reason behind the NOx pollution (Zore, Čuček and Kravanja 2018). In case of NOx pollution
various sources have been identified. Those are as follows.

Figure: Sources of NOx pollution in UK from 1970 to 2020
(Source: Uk-air.defra.gov.uk 2020)
According to Cai et al. (2018), mostly in case of towns, traffic is the major reason behind the air
pollution that increases the amount of nitrogen dioxide in the air. In the above diagram, it haas
been clearly mentioned that the NOx pollution took place in UK due to road, industrial,
domestic, non-road transport and power plants. However, among all the sources, road transport
can be considered as the important factor behind high NOx emission. Comparing the emission
from petrol and diesel vehicles, it has been identified that diesel vehicles create much higher
level of emission. By supporting this Samoli et al. (2016) stated that clean air has become the
major threat for UK due to excessive amount of traffic pollution. It is true that the road pollution
contributes almost 49% of the total emission of Nox. In the above diagram, it is clearly
mentioned that the road emissions have got reduced almost 34% between 1990 and 2000. Road
traffic emissions also contribute in producing the greenhouse gasses that influence the rate of