UK: Labour against Rivers

The UK environment secretary, Steve Reed, is pursuing legal action against a group of anglers who are trying to restore the ecosystem of a river. Lawyers for Reed will argue on Tuesday in the court of appeal that cleaning up individual rivers and streams devastated by pollution is administratively unworkable.

The appeal was begun by the previous Conservative administration, after Pickering Fishery Association, a fishing club in North Yorkshire, won a landmark legal case against the government and the Environment Agency. The anglers successfully argued that the government and the Environment Agency had failed in their legal duties to protect the Costa Beck, a former trout stream near Pickering which has been devastated by sewage pollution and runoff from fish farms.

Read in The Guardian

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