Environmental Activists Sue Government Over Changes To Climate Change Strategy

Environmental activists have taken the government to court over changes to its climate change decarbonisation plans. On Tuesday, Friends of the Earth, Good Law Project and ClientEarth announced that they were taking the government to court, for the second time, over allegations that it breached its climate change plans. Friends of the Earth said it believes that “once again, the new climate plan is both inadequate and unlawful.” They say they believe the plan is “unlawful” because it “is a breach of section 14 of the Climate Change Act 2008, which requires the Secretary of State to publish sufficient information to allow meaningful scrutiny of the government’s net zero policies.”...