<div>Heathrow third runway 'may break government's climate change laws'</div>

Airport expansion plans may breach climate change legislation if other sectors do not make big cuts to emissions, warns Committee on Climate ChangePlans to build a third runway at Heathrow may breach the Government’s own climate change legislation if other sectors do not make big cuts to emissions, an independent advisory body has warned.The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said it had “concerns” over how the Department for Transport (DfT) had presented its case for expanding the hub in relation to greenhouse gas emissions. Related: The decision to back a third runway at Heathrow is a grotesque folly | John Sauven Continue reading...