The UK's Environment Information Regulations have enabled researchers and campaigners to force water firms to publish data on river pollution, but they may be scrapped as part of the Brexit process.

The Environmental Information Regulation allows the public to demand data from private water companies, but it is at risk of being scrapped by the Government.

The Retained EU Law Bill would rock legal certainty in the UK and undermine the country’s status as an internationally competitive business environment, the Law Society said today as the bill enters its final stage in the House of Commons.

Ministers have refused to rule out scrapping EU regulations that protect swimmers and wildlife.

Rishi Sunak plans to rip up remaining EU laws by the end of the year left on the statute book after Brexit - but experts worry that any relaxation in seatbelt rules will discourage people from wearing them.

REUL: Scant time remains to assess which former EU legislation to keep, amend or revoke – and the environment is likely to pay the price. / While we were EU members, the UK adopted some legislation created by the EU. Jacob Rees-Mogg called them “diktats” and promised that after Brexit we’d “take back control of our laws”. This is disingenuous: the UK was fully involved in drawing up EU law.

Private equity veteran Guy Hands says Boris Johnson ‘threw the country and the NHS under the bus’.

Thousands of pro-consumer laws we take for granted could expire at the end of 2023.

The health and safety industry has warned the government that it might not be a good idea to throw out every European-related law.

A POST-BREXIT “bonfire of banking rules” planned by the UK Government risks driving up food and energy prices even further, campaigners have warned.

Thousands of EU laws could expire at the end of 2023.

The BBC’s Analysis editor Ros Atkins looks at the controversy surrounding the government’s plan to scrap thousands of EU-era laws.

Nature organisations have hit out at legislation that they say could lead to the loss of important environmental protections and cost the UK tens of billions of pounds.

Plans to scrap all remaining EU-made laws in the UK by the end of the year have cleared the Commons amid criticism from a senior Brexiteer that the process is not democratic and “possibly incompetent”.

First came Brexit. Now comes Britain’s bonfire of European laws. / Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is pushing ahead with a contentious plan to remove all remaining European Union laws from Britain’s statute book by the end of 2023, despite opponents’ claims that the move is rash and unworkable.

The MPs have joined a cross-party group calling on ministers to declare which Brussels-made rules will be removed from British statute books.

Ministers are facing a clash with opposition and Conservative MPs over their plans to scrap EU-era laws copied over to UK law after Brexit.

Over 1,000 staff were redeployed to deal with the fall-out from leaving the EU. Now, the financial consequences are coming to light.

Today, MPs will debate and vote on the Retained EU Law Bill which if passed, could endanger thousands of rights and protections in the UK.

Research says that of the 8.6 million workers most affected by scrapping of EU protections, around six million will be women.

New staff needed to cope with the government’s controversial retained EU laws bill will cost Whitehall dearly in a financial crisis.

The MPs have joined a cross-party group calling on ministers to declare which Brussels-made rules will be removed from British statute books.

Could sunset on EU laws see azodicarbonimide appear in ultra-processed baked products, while other additives disappear but only from ingredients lists?

An SNP MP has warned that plans to axe thousands of pieces of EU legislation by the end of the year could result in many things “needlessly catching fire”.

Why Rees-Mogg’s bill to sunset EU laws is so inflammatory and what you can do about it.