UK government's own climate laws may halt roadbuilding plans

Analysis: campaigners argue that, as with Heathrow, climate obligations should make £27bn scheme unviable£27bn roads plan in doubt after Shapps overrode official adviceThe first sign that the government was in serious trouble over the long-mooted expansion of Heathrow airport came in a little-noticed letter from the Department for Transport in May 2019. In it, a government official acknowledged for the first time that the UK’s obligations under the Paris agreement, and its carb