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This week’s edition of Environment highlights includes analysis on the Committee for Climate Change’s (CCC) report into whether the UK’s response to climate change is enough, and analysis on how the court came to reject the claims for judicial review of the Heathrow runway expansion in R (on the application of Spurrier) v Secretary of State for Transport and other cases. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has this week announced that a ban on plastic straws, drinks stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton buds in England will come into effect in April 2020 and the Council of the EU has adopted measures put forward by the European Commission including a ban on ten of the most prevalent single-use, plastic products found on European beaches. Also this week, Defra has released a new report outlining the government’s progress in improving the environment as part of its 25 Year Environment Plan.
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