{"id":385944,"date":"2026-01-23T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385944\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:15:09","slug":"air-quality-improvements-recorded-in-oxfordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385944\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality improvements recorded in Oxfordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Dickie from Clean Air Henley said the removal of the special measures was &#8220;premature&#8221; and the AQMAs should remain in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;The measurements at the council&#8217;s monitoring station in Henley could lead you to assume pollution is no longer a problem in the town but that is just one spot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marta O&#8217;Brien, an environmental scientist and air quality researcher with the University of Reading, said better education was needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said local authorities also needed to take more measurements at hot spots like hospitals and schools and at peak times like rush hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Aim at areas with more people, targeted areas and times,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the removal of the AQMAs was &#8220;sending the wrong message&#8221; by telling people that &#8220;the air quality is clean&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the UK the the legal annual average limit for nitrogen dioxide pollution is 40 micrograms per cubic metre of air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Brien said she wanted people to have &#8220;a better understanding of what air pollution is doing to us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that the reduction in nitrogen dioxide to the legal limit, did not mean the air was clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Dickie from Clean Air Henley said the removal of the special measures was &#8220;premature&#8221; and the AQMAs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-385944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}