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J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2009 Feb;59(2):207-213. doi: 10.3155/1047-3289.59.2.207.

Effect of Air Pollution Controls on Black Smoke and Sulfur Dioxide Concentrations across Ireland.

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)

Patrick G Goodman, David Q Rich, Ariana Zeka, Luke Clancy, Douglas W Dockery

Affiliations

  1. a Dublin Institute of Technology , Dublin , Ireland.
  2. b Department of Epidemiology , University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health , Piscataway , NJ , USA.
  3. c Institute for the Environment , Brunel University , West London , United Kingdom.
  4. d Research Institute for a Tobacco Free Society , Dublin , Ireland.
  5. e Department of Environmental Health , Harvard School of Public Health , Boston , MA , USA.

PMID: 29116922 DOI: 10.3155/1047-3289.59.2.207

Abstract

During the 1980s Ireland experienced severe pollution episodes, principally because of domestic coal burning. In 1990, the Irish government introduced a ban on the marketing, sale, and distribution of coal in Dublin. They extended the ban to Cork in 1995 and to ten other communities in 1998 and 2000. We previously reported declines in particulate (black smoke [BS]) and sulfur dioxide (SO

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