‘Wrong on every level’: Councils urge Government to give up plans for …

Pressure is mounting on the Government after a “damning” Parliamentary report shows it has not proved the Heathrow expansion can achieve legal environmental limits. The report, issued on Thursday, February 23, by the cross party Environmental Audit Committee, is a follow-up of its first report and states it has seen “little evidence so far of the ‘step change’ in the Government’s approach to environmental mitigation”, which the committee had originally called for.