{"id":71527,"date":"2023-08-29T07:44:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T06:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=71527"},"modified":"2023-08-29T07:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T06:44:46","slug":"gove-proves-the-tories-are-still-on-the-side-of-big-money-when-it-comes-to-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/08\/29\/gove-proves-the-tories-are-still-on-the-side-of-big-money-when-it-comes-to-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gove proves the Tories are still on the side of big money when it comes to the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many report this morning, and as summarised by Politico<\/a> in its morning email (which I recommend):<\/p>\n

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Leveling-Up Secretary Michael Gove is set to announce this morning that he is ripping up rules that restrict pollution from new-build homes. That\u2019ll settle an apparent months-long standoff between his department and Defra, but open a whole new front in the battle over the environment. The \u201cnutrient neutrality\u201d rules are hated by housebuilders and some Tory MPs, which say they hold housing back. But green groups are already furious.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course green groups are furious. These rules are intended, as they stand, to stop housing development from increasing the level of water pollution in our rivers and streams, which is already overwhelming many of them.<\/p>\n

As Craig Bennett, CEO of the Wildlife Trusts, put it on Twitter:<\/p>\n

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To be as polite as possible about this, that cuts through the crap and spells things out exactly as they are.<\/p>\n

To put it another way, big money is beating the environment, yet again.<\/p>\n

For how long do we have to put up with this? Is it until there is nothing left, ourselves included, to save? Or will we one day realise that human degradation of our planet has to end? We are not there yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As many report this morning, and as summarised by Politico in its morning email (which I recommend): Leveling-Up Secretary Michael Gove is set to announce
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