Green and health groups lodge legal complaint over missing government targets

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Green and health groups lodge legal complaint over missing government targets

National Trust, RSPB, and ZSL among coalition of groups backing complaint to the Office of Environmental Protection over government’s failure to set new set of legal green targets

The government is facing yet more legal action over its environmental strategy, after a coalition of green and health groups today formally submitted a complaint to the Office for Environmental Protection...

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