Why the UK’s plan to tackle air pollution is mostly hot air

Air pollution is a growing issue

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The UK government has today announced plans to tackle sources of air pollution, including trendy wood-burning stoves, but its fails to address the real problem.

While pollution from wood-burning stoves is a relatively new problem for the UK – they became fashionable a few years ago - it has long been a major source of air pollution in countries such as Canada and New Zealand. And the take-home message from their efforts to control the release of harmful particulates in the air is …