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- 1909
- Smoke Abatement League is formed out of groups in industrial cities in north of England.
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- 1913
- Formation of British Ecological Society.
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- 1919
- Creation of Forestry Commission.
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- 1925
- World population has doubled to about 2 billion in the last 100 years.
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- 1926
- Council for the Preservation of Rural England set up.
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- 1929
- Battersea Power Station opens in London, the first anywhere to be fitted with anti-pollution scrubbers.
- National Smoke Abatement Society (renamed National Society for Clean Air in 1958) formed.