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    Watchdog accused of failing to hold Environment Agency to account

    by Danny Halpin Dec 20, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: PA Archive

    The Environment Agency should be investigated for failing to seek out and punish farmers who were unlawfully causing nitrogen pollution but the watchdog was yet to act, two green groups have said.

    WWF and ClientEarth said it had been over a year since they complained to the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) that the Environment Agency had been “missing in action”.

    The job of OEP is to hold government

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