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In this news article academics respond to recent attacks by the UK government on environmental groups such as Greenpeace. The article includes quotes from Bob Ward who says that such attacks could be politically damaging to the government as the majority of people support the aims of environmental groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Observer,