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In early 1982 the Campaign for Lead Free Air (CLEAR) was launched with the objective of removing lead from petrol. The campaign was well funded; it was headed by an experienced campaigner; and it was backed by an impressive array of political and scientific figures and environmental groups. It was also successful. Within a little over a year the British Government had changed its policy to one of support for lead-free petrol and two years later an EC Directive was adopted requiring the supply of lead-free petrol to be mandatory throughout the EC from October 1989.1
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Haigh, N., Lanigan, C. (1995). Impact of the European Union on UK Environmental Policy Making. In: Gray, T.S. (eds) UK Environmental Policy in the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24237-5_3
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