Environmental Protection
Keep up to date with what’s happening to the world around us.
Clean Air plan welcomed but lacks detail
Ambitious government plans to clean up the air will work only if coupled with effective and properly funded local authority powers, according to experts.
Green watchdog could take government to court
DEFRA promises to create an Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) that could sue the Government if it failed to act on environmental breaches.
Nottingham air quality plan 'may not hit targets'
First local authority air quality plan approved by the government is at risk of not meeting legal air quality limits.
Second council signs air charter
Southampton is the first local authority to join Oxford City Council by signing its cleaner air charter.
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