Setting Standards: Environmental Regulation as if Human Health Mattered
In the second part of our series of extracts from the Lib Dem's new Green Book, Mike Tuffrey argues that weak environmental regulation is letting down the public
In recent years the mood across the political spectrum has been almost universally hostile to government regulation. Initiatives for greater intervention are routinely accused of adding to 'red tape'....
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