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The latest news is shown below from Air Quality in Scotland, with the most recent at the top.

Over the weekend and up to the 5th November there will be numerous bonfire night activities.

The latest version of the Air Pollutant Inventories for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland report series has been published and can be found here:

This technical report has been produced on behalf of the Scottish Government as part of the Scottish Air Quality Database project.

The twentieth edition of the Scottish Air Quality Database (SAQD) stakeholder newsletter has been published, on behalf of the Scottish Government, by Ricardo Energy & Environment.

Please be advised that elevated levels of SO2 are being measured across Scotland at the moment and is forecast to potentially do so for the next couple of days.

A new Local Air Quality Management – Policy Guidance PG (S) (24) have been released.

Scottish Government have create a new annual report that focuses on compiling all the SAQD automatic monitoring sites annual statistics for 2023.

The Annual Scottish Air Quality Database and Website Annual Seminar took place online again this year, on 3 separate dates: 13th, 20th and 27th March 2024.

The nineteenth edition of the Scottish Air Quality Database (SAQD) stakeholder newsletter has been published, on behalf of the Scottish Government, by Ricardo Energy & Environment.

We would like to invite you to attend the Scottish Air Quality Annual Seminar 2024 run by the Scottish Government as part of the Scottish Air Quality Database and Website project.

Scottish Government have published the Air Quality Scotland Brochure 2022 and it can also be downloaded from the Technical reports page.

Throughout summer 2023, the United Kingdom experienced elevated ozone concentrations due to dry, sunny weather and light wind.

The eighteenth edition of the Scottish Air Quality Database (SAQD) stakeholder newsletter has been published, on behalf of the Scottish Government, by Ricardo Energy & Environment.

This technical report has been produced on behalf of the Scottish Government as part of the Scottish Air Quality Database project.

The seventeenth edition of the Scottish Air Quality Database (SAQD) stakeholder newsletter has been published, on behalf of the Scottish Government, by Ricardo Energy & Environment.

This is a Scottish Government Guidance Note in relation to the measurement of ambient Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5) and the LAQM reporting of measured concen

Annual Statistics reports for all Local authorities monitoring sites have been created for the ratified 2022 dataset.

New Technical Guidance and Policy Guidance documents have been published and are available to download from the Technical Reports section using the links below:

This improvement plan sets out the Scottish Government’s response to the six key recommendations made by Environmental Standards Scotland following its investigation into air quality.