Revealed: government spent £370,000 losing air pollution legal battles
by Damian Carrington Environment editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#35TMS)
Exclusive: Freedom of information request reveals 'disgraceful' amount of taxpayers' money used to battle ClientEarth over illegally poor air pollution plans
The government spent 370,000 of taxpayers' money unsuccessfully fighting court claims that its plans to tackle air pollution were illegally poor, a freedom of information request has revealed.
The money was spent battling two actions brought by environmental lawyers ClientEarth and included more than 90,000 in costs paid to the group after it won on both occasions. Critics said the government's expenditure was "disgraceful" and should have been spent on cutting pollution.
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