Friday, July 15, 2016

Britain's New Prime Minister

  Another consequence of the Brexit vote.

Common Dreams: 'Shocking,' 'Plain Stupid': Theresa May Shuts Climate Change Office - 'This reshuffle risks dropping climate change from the policy agenda altogether—a staggering act of negligence for which we will all pay the price' by Nadia Prupis
May shuttered the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) on Thursday and moved responsibility for the environment to a new Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. The decision comes the same week as the U.K. government's own advisers warned in a report that the nation was not ready for the inevitable consequences of climate change, including deadly heat waves and food and water shortages.

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