As Britain Exits The European Union, It Steps Away From Leading Environmental Laws

(Before It's News)

First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.

Britain voted to leave the European Union, and with that, it leaves the positive environmental framework the EU provides.

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