'The UK is quietly diverging from the EU': Are 'green Brexit' promises being broken?

Michael Holder
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The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) is just the latest body to argue the UK is starting to fall behind its European neighbours in the adoption of environmental policies and regulations

Ever since the EU referendum in 2016 environmental groups have repeatedly warned Brexit could lead to a gap opening up between the UK and EU when it came to green targets, protections, and policies - a...

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