Climate & Environment · Recorded milestone

Smokestack scrubbers

Recorded year1931

London's Battersea Power Station washes sulphur out of its smoke from 1931; scrubbers like it spread after the 1970 US Clean Air Act, cutting acid rain.

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Steam-turbine power stationRecorded · 1903enables

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No connections of this kind are recorded.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.