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Green watchdog: Commons approves government concession amendment

Madeleine Cuff
Madeleine Cuff
clock 14 June 2018 •
Green watchdog: Commons approves government concession amendment

Environmental watchdog will now be given more 'teeth' to police UK green standards post-Brexit

MPs in the House of Commons last night passed an amendment to the government's key Brexit legislation that will grant the UK's proposed new environmental watchdog increased powers. The amendment, tabled...

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