MPs warn vote to leave EU would threaten UK environmental policy

Air and water quality, biodiversity and countryside would be at risk, Commons environment select committee report says

Leaving the EU would threaten the UK's air and water quality, biodiversity and the countryside, a committee of MPs has warned.

The UK has benefited from an EU-wide environmental cleanup in the past four decades, and giving up membership would lead to a damaging policy vacuum and an end to influence over green regulations, the commons environmental audit select committee has said in a report.