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Campaigners Warn of Loopholes in Laws to Curb Antibiotics on UK Farms After ‘Biased’ Industry Consultation

DeSmogBlog

Proposed laws to curb antibiotic use on UK farms drafted after closed-door meetings with industry contain loopholes that could undermine the fight against deadly drug resistant bacteria, campaigners have warned. Civil society groups were not invited. Rates of antibiotic use are 2.5

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How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy

GreenBiz

Thu, 01/14/2021 - 01:00. For the last two decades, the European Union has played a leadership role in tackling the risks hazardous chemicals pose to our health and environment. Just as its current policies have inspired imitation, it’s likely that these new policies will drive significant changes in the U.S.

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The UK Government’s deregulation agenda is dangerous

Envirotec Magazine

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk.

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Complaint launched after government misses legal deadline on environmental protections

Envirotec Magazine

If it finds there has been a serious failure to comply with environmental law, then further action is possible. The setting of new legal targets is a key part of the Environment Act 2021. The new version will have to show clearly how the government’s policies will deliver on its targets. million hectares.

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Draft 2021 Legislative Priorities

Front And Centered

The people of Washington state, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color in particular, are facing tremendous challenges as we enter the 2021 legislative session to survive, let alone to thrive. 2021 POLICY PRIORITIES. The post Draft 2021 Legislative Priorities appeared first on Front and Centered.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. To many, cap and trade highlights a contradiction. But "it doesn’t feel like anything is changing.". Climate change is usually seen as a global problem. As the U.S.

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We can escape “the era of pandemics” says biodiversity expert group, but it will require transformation

Envirotec Magazine

COVID-19, says the group, is at least the sixth global health pandemic since the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918, and although it is believed to have its origins in microbes carried by animals, like all pandemics its emergence has been entirely driven by human activities, says the report released on 29 October.