greenwashing

12/12/2023

National Highways has refused to disclose the penalties that contractors would pay if they breached contract clauses it says are central to ‘ensuring’ that the Lower Thames Crossing meets new carbon limits.

21/07/2023

National Highways has announced Skanska as the preferred bidder for the Kent Roads contract on the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) project, but has confirmed that a 30% cut in projected carbon emission under the £450m contract brings emissions to the level it has already stated to be current best practice.

15/12/2022

National Highways has achieved a globally recognised accreditation for its ‘commitment and ambition’ to cut carbon.

07/10/2022

National Highways has hired a network of UK universities to provide ‘assurance’ over its carbon claims for the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC).

23/08/2022

Councillors in Leeds have put a green spin on the new £126m East Leeds Orbital Route, which is now open to traffic.

19/07/2022

The climate impact from traffic using the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) will be 80% lower if the Government’s ambitions for electric vehicles are realised, National Highways has said.

20/05/2022

Transport for London (TfL) has sought to distance itself from its own modelling of the impact of the Silvertown tunnel, which contradicts claims that both TfL and City Hall have made that the scheme will not increase traffic and carbon.

18/05/2022

As part of an ongoing investigation into developers' claims to be reducing the impact of their schemes on the climate, Chris Ames reveals new concerns about National Highways' assertions that it is cutting carbon emissions from the proposed Lower Thames Crossing.