David Briggs on why sustainability and the EU make good business sense.
Angry MPs say the move threatens jobs, the environment and the NHS in a cliff-edge crash-out on WTO terms.
Rachel Donald looks at how the Trade Minister’s justification for a zero-tariff trade deal with Malaysia only accelerates global deforestation.
Ellie Newis reviews two of the flagship free trade agreements that were supposed to reignite the UK economy.
‘It’s nonsense’: Michael Gove criticised after blaming EU for government missing tree-planting target
17/11/2019
‘Michael Gove is barking up the wrong tree and knows it,’ says Greenpeace.
A bill to remove EU-derived laws that include 570 environmental regulations will cause serious ecological harm, charities and MPs have warned.
The government’s “Brexit freedoms bill” could see all legal protections from pesticides abolished, wildlife campaigners have warned, putting insects, wildlife and human health in danger.
Many environmental regulations based on EU law, Institute of European Environmental Policy warns.
They will be joined by a young bull from Germany in mid-August, whose arrival was delayed by import complications related to Brexit.
The Government has effectively made it cheaper for firms to pollute in Britain in what some see as another anti-green move by Rishi Sunak’s administration.
Brussels firms up position and bloc’s unity before tough talks on future relationship with UK.
Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed a proposed new bill which will protect Welsh farmers from being undercut by food trade deals which do not meet environmental and animal welfare standards.
Instead of protecting the natural world, the proposed Office for Environmental Protection ‘could undermine the rule of law’, and lead to worse damage than under EU, lawyers say
Wasted Opportunity: Household Recycling Stalls as EU Target to Increase It was Quietly Abandoned after Brexit Vote
30/06/2023
A new waste strategy was drawn up by the Government in 2018 but, five years on, there are no delivery dates for it, according to a new report by the independent spending watchdog.
Rhetoric that government will develop gold standard fisheries is ‘a joke’, campaigners say.
Proposals due to be published on Thursday by the UK Government will see powers in at least 70 policy areas previously controlled by the EU flow instead to Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast
The British government secretly dropped a series of climate pledges in order to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia, leaked emails appear to show.
Environment secretary George Eustice wants to tear up a key piece of European law that environmentalists say protects cherished habitats in the UK.
According to experts, the best long-term environmental and economic measure Tory ministers could adopt is a close relationship with the EU market.
Brexit was supposed to lead to a new era of green agriculture, but farmers are on the brink as they can't access the government environmental subsidy schemes
UK farmers 'betrayed' by government's Brexit tariff plans that risk flooding UK with lower-quality imported food
08/10/2019
British goods face tariffs of up to 60 per cent while many imports won't be charged any under latest Tory plans.
Government has astonishing record of fighting demands to meet legal obligations.
London MEP says it is 'clear the government cannot be left to its own devices when it comes to keeping our water sources safe'.
Campaigners say revoking of post-Brexit protections amounts to legislative vandalism. / Hundreds of Britain’s environmental laws covering water quality, sewage pollution, clean air, habitat protections and the use of pesticides are lined up for removal from UK law under a government bill.
UK businesses are paying 10 per cent more than their EU counterparts to trade their emissions following Brexit.