{"id":9308,"date":"2025-10-17T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9308"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:08:32","slug":"london-schools-to-get-filters-to-cut-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/london-schools-to-get-filters-to-cut-air-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"London schools to get filters to cut air pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of London schools are set to receive new air quality filters in a \u00a32.7m scheme designed to reduce pollution in classrooms and protect children&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan said the rollout, covering more than 200 schools across the capital, could cut harmful particulate matter (PM2.5) inside classrooms by up to 68%.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at St Mary&#8217;s RC Primary School in Battersea, south-west London, one of the first schools to receive the filters, Sir Sadiq said they could have a &#8220;life-changing&#8221; impact on young people.<\/p>\n<p>The City Hall Conservatives said the rollout was &#8220;welcome news&#8221; for air quality but would be countered by the removal of of congestion charge exemptions for electric vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of London schools are set to receive new air quality filters in a \u00a32.7m scheme designed to reduce pollution in classrooms and protect children\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan said the rollout, covering more than 200 schools across the capital, could cut harmful particulate matter (PM2.5) inside classrooms by up to 68%.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at St Mary\u2019s RC Primary School in Battersea, south-west London, one of the first schools to receive the filters, Sir Sadiq said they could have a \u201clife-changing\u201d impact on young people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/london-schools-to-get-filters-to-cut-air-pollution\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">London schools to get filters to cut air pollution<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[167,1132,26,45,44,444,62,202,50],"class_list":["post-9308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-pollution","tag-air-quality","tag-children","tag-hepa-filters","tag-indoor-air-quality","tag-london","tag-schools","tag-students","tag-united-kingdom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9310,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions\/9310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}