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<p>The national air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide, published in December last
year, set out a range of measures that we are implementing to improve air quality.
In the plan the Government announced that we will be mandating the introduction of
Clean Air Zones in five key cities (Birmingham, Derby, Leeds, Nottingham and Southampton).
We will be consulting later this year on a Clean Air Zone framework, to provide consistency
and certainty, together with draft secondary legislation to mandate the implementation
of Clean Air Zones.</p><p>Later this year, Defra will also consult on proposals to
reduce pollution from electricity generating plants with high nitrogen oxide emissions
that are not currently regulated. The proposals would extend set emission limit values
on relevant air pollutants, with a view to having legislation in force no later than
January 2019, and possibly sooner.</p>
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