What is all about the Clean Air Act ????

Question

Please tell me what is it all about...

Answer 1

Actually Clean Airs Acts - there were more than one. In London in the early 1950s there were a number of terrible 'smogs', fog mixed with fine particulates of coal etc which, at that time, was the main source of heating homes, factories, offices etc. Most rail travel was still using steam locomotives. About 4000 people are estimated to have died. Successive Governments introduced legislation making it an offence to discharge 'dark smoke' in 'smoke control areas'. For more detail see my source.

Answer 2

The captains of industry decided that lung diseases were too expensive, and took workers out of the labor pool too quickly. So they engineered laws to reduce pollution, in order to keep people on the job longer.

But perhaps I am a cynic.