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Will the new Environment Bill really deliver Gove’s “Green Brexit”?

Next week parliament starts scrutinising draft legislation, but environmental campaigners are sceptical about the government’s “loopholes and vague aspirations”.

By Amy Hall
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Image: Białowieża Forest, Poland - last year the ECJ overruled the Polish government who planned to allow extensive felling of the primeval forest. Credit: Jacek Karczmarz/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

“We will not weaken environmental protections when we leave the EU,” said Environment Secretary Michael Gove in 2018, as the government promised the first Environment Bill in over 20 years.

This was the Bill to prove a Green Brexit was what we are headed for, and to get those of us who have been speculating otherwise to pipe down.

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