Environment Secretary Therese Coffey who has admitted the Government has missed deadline to set new environmental targets
(Picture: PA Wire)Londoners’ lives are being put at risk by the Government’s bungled post-Brexit targets to tackle toxic air, a watchdog warned on Tuesday.
Dame Glenys Stacey, chair of the Office for Environmental Protection, criticised the Government for failing to meet a deadline on Monday to set a series of new targets under the Environment Act 2021 which aims to set standards after Britain quit the European Union and abandoned its system of eco-protections.
