'Painfully slow': MPs deliver scathing review of government's environmental progress

Cecilia Keating
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MPs in Public Accounts Committee have urged government to 'move on from aspirational words' and start 'taking the hard decisions'

Progress on schemes to improve the UK's air, water, and biodiversity have been "painfully slow" in the nine years since the Conservative-led government first pledged to improve the natural environment...

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