Scotland 'at risk of losing environmental protection after Brexit’

Campaigners urge Holyrood ministers to enshrine EU legal rights in national law. Environment campaigners have warned that Scotland will lose vital legal safeguards because ministers have failed to ensure environment and pollution laws will be properly enforced after Brexit. They said ministers in Edinburgh had refused repeated requests to table new legislation to guarantee citizens and campaigners in Scotland the same rights they now had under European law. WWF Scotland, the conservation group,