New Green Watchdog: Independent or captured from the start?

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IEMA's Martin Baxter sets out the three criteria against which the government's imminent plans for a new post-Brexit Green Watchdog should be measured

The forthcoming draft Environment Bill will take forward the requirements in the European Union (Withdrawal Act) 2018 to create a new green watchdog and enshrine core environmental principles into law....

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