This Friday’s edition of the Brexit Briefing is part of the series of posts to highlight articles published in the media covering Brexit from an environmental perspective.
The articles are presented in chronological order with the most recent articles first. They are not presented in any specific order of importance & are provided as a selected sample of news articles to promote understanding of the key environmental issues as they develop during the Brexit process.
The selected articles this week are:
Government ‘failed to clean up air’ (BBC News, 5 October 2017)
Gove: climate policy must not come ‘at the expense of economic growth’ (Ecologist, 4 October 2017)
Pessimism, Optimism, and Opportunity beyond Brexit (Resilience, 4 October 2017)
Air quality standards ‘must be tougher’ post-Brexit (AirQualityNews, 3 October 2017)
Theresa May offers Nicola Sturgeon face-to-face talks on Brexi (The Scotsman, 3 October 2017)
Scottish Greens would vote against Brexit bill at Holyrood (The Scotsman, 3 October 2017)
Michael Gove made a pig’s ear of it over EU animal rules, say farmers (The Guardian, 3 October 2017)
Brexit and Beyond: Environmental Principles to Guide a Sustainable Future (IEMA, 3 October 2017)
‘Green Brexit’? Not with this dirty Brexit brigade, Mr Gove (OpenDemocracyUK, 3 October 2017)
David Mundell: Deal will be done over new powers post-Brexit (The Scotsman, 3 October 2017)
Green Brexit: Securing the future for farming and the environment (Sustain, 2 October 2017)
Cabinet is split over how Brexit should happen, Hammond admits (The Guardian, 2 October 2017)
More pigs’ ears for export after Brexit, says Michael Gove (BT.com, 2 October 2017)
NFU sets out three-phase approach to move away from CAP (FarmingUK, 2 October 2017)
Protesters demand an end to Brexit at May’s Conservative conference (Reuters, 1 October 2017)
Gove confirms NI agri funding plan (FamingLife, 30 September 2017)