'Damaging and unjustified': Groups warn of 'secrecy provision' in UK green watchdog plans

Michael Holder
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Amnesty International, NUJ, Greenpeace, and others warn restrictions in remit of proposed Office for Environmental Protection 'wholly at odds with public's right to information'

The government is being urged to drop a "secrecy provision" in proposals for a post-Brexit environmental watchdog, with a group of 36 green, legal, and media groups warning the plans represent a "damaging...

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