Climate Change: Government may review road-building policy
The government may review its road-building policy in England following a legal challenge from environmentalists.
Green campaigners argue that the policy does not fit with the UK’s climate change targets.
The case is being debated between lawyers for the government and the campaigners.
It could lead to a revision of the roads policy which underpins the government’s controversial £27bn highways programme.
The BBC has learned that lawyers for Transport Secretary Grant Shapps have asked in a letter for more time to decide if he is willing to review the roads policy on environmental grounds.
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