local authorities

Environment

Councils have sprayed 170,000 litres of weedkiller linked to cancer

Kirsty Jenkins on January 12, 2020January 13, 2020

Over 170,000 litres of a weedkiller officially classified as a probable cause of cancer have been widely used by local authorities across Scotland in the last five years.

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Human rights, Politics

Council officials push to weaken freedom of information law

Rob Edwards on June 12, 2019June 12, 2019

Senior local authority officials are lobbying to relax freedom of information law so that they can increase charges, delay responses and reject more requests as “vexatious”.

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Environment, Finance

Scottish councils pour £1.7bn into polluting fossil fuels

Rob Edwards on March 13, 2017March 14, 2017

Scottish local authorities are investing £1.7 billion in 52 fossil fuel companies blamed for causing climate chaos.

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local authorities

Environment

Councils have sprayed 170,000 litres of weedkiller linked to cancer

Human rights, Politics

Council officials push to weaken freedom of information law

Environment, Finance

Scottish councils pour £1.7bn into polluting fossil fuels

Air pollution from traffic is getting worse on some Scottish streets

Claim Scotland needs a deficit of 3% or lower to join EU is Mostly False

Government officials worried that tree deal with Shell was “greenwashing”

UK tried “diplomatic blackmail” to force Mandela to buy Scottish warships