Pollutionwatch: where would we be without EU environmental laws?

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Netherlands study offers UK good indication how it would have fared without EU rules

For more than four decades the UK contributed to EU-wide environmental lawmaking, but what have these regulations and directives done for us? The nearest data that we have comes from the Netherlands. There, scientists compared two alternative realities for their country: one with no EU laws and a version of today’s reality. European-wide laws began with exhaust standards for cars in the 1970s.

 

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Remind me again which country came out with the Clean Air Act in 1956, the first of its kind, which was upgraded in 1968 and again in 1993

With US EPA regulations?

Big yawn

Without EU environmental laws we wouldn’t have been forced to switch to diesel cars.

We'd have our own laws.

35 years ago Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and friends, organized USA For Africa, due to the power of Social Media, World Press and the need to act,we will invite all the artists of the world to organize an event in favor of Planet Earth

Everyone will dead in a week. You watch.

Our pollinators could have been wiped out as our government wanted neonicotinoid use to be permitted- and may well still allow them, and what with the possible threat of 5G too - goodness knows.........

Nothing. We are useless. Pond scum. We should be ashamed at our ineptitude. They gave us everything. We are just ungrateful puddles of vomit. Tomorrow, the Island will float off into the Atlantic, hit an iceberg and sink. And we deserve it for our cis-white colonial privilege.

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