Campaigners take legal action over £27bn UK road-building scheme
by Matthew Taylor from Environment | The Guardian on (#52EZH)
Lawyers argue that ministers have failed to account for UK's climate crisis obligations
Campaigners have launched a legal challenge to try to prevent billions of pounds of taxpayers' money being spent on a huge road-building programme, which they say breaches the UK's legal commitments to tackle the climate crisis and air pollution.
Lawyers acting for the Transport Action Network (Tan) have begun legal proceedings against the Department for Transport calling for the road-building scheme, which was confirmed last month by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to be suspended.
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