The CEO of Wildlife and Countryside Link, Dr Richard Benwell (until recently Special Adviser to Defra Secretary of State Michael Gove, and currently Liberal Democrat candidate for Wantage), has warned that the Environment Bill contains discretionary powers for the Secretary of State to vary, water down or even remove long established chemical standards for controlled waters set by the Water Framework Directive.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION UK CONFERENCE, BIRMINGHAM, 13 NOVEMBER 2019
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WALES COMMITTEE REPORT ON ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE POST BREXIT
On 2 October 2019, the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee of the National Assembly for Wales published a report on ‘Environmental principles and governance post-Brexit’, containing very important recommendations to the Welsh Government for the way in which environmental laws and principles should be enacted, applied and enforced in Wales post Brexit.
SUPREME COURT RULES PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT UNLAWFUL, NULL AND VOID
In a historic judgment on combined appeals from England and Scotland on 24 September 2019, all 11 Justices of the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Prime Minister Johnson’s advice to the Queen to prorogue Parliament for five weeks from mid September to 14 October 2019 prevented Parliament from carrying out its constitutional role.
AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES BILLS FALL WITH THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT: ENVIRONMENT BILL NOT YET INTRODUCED
MICHAEL GOVE MP’s FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER AT ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT TO STAND AS LIBERAL DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE
WHAT DOES ‘DIVERGENCE FROM EU ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS’ MEAN IN PRACTICE?
PRICE FORBES MINING FORUM
WILLIAM WILSON QUOTED IN ENDS REPORT ON ENVIRONMENTAL PRIORITIES FOR JOHNSON GOVERNMENT
MICHAEL GOVE PUTS DOWN MARKERS FOR ANY SUCCESSOR
AIR QUALITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT BILL
BORIS JOHNSON’S ENVIRONMENT POLICY?
The next Prime Minister will immediately be beset by the problems of managing a minority government, and aiming to deliver whatever form of Brexit is achievable. One of the many issues competing for the new Prime Minister’s attention will be the choices that really matter for environmental policy, and whether or not to aim for continuity with existing policy.