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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Labour to oppose ‘reckless’ Tory plans to rip up EU pollution laws

New houses on the banks of a river in, Lewes, East Sussex.
Angela Rayner, the shadow levelling up secretary, said: ‘Labour will speed up planning to build the homes we need without trashing the environment.’ Photograph: Grant Rooney Premium/Alamy

Labour is set to oppose plans to rip up EU laws prohibiting housebuilders from polluting England’s most sensitive rivers.

Angela Rayner and Steve Reed, the new shadow levelling up and environment secretaries, have vowed that Labour will try to protect the EU-derived environmental legislation.

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