INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia has quietly made it easier to build pipelines in nature reserves, scrapped regulations on automobile emissions and pushed back
measures to reduce pollution as part of a broad rollback of environmental regulations that looks set to gather pace amid the war in Ukraine
to embark on major construction projects in Specially Protected Natural Territories (OOPT), which cover some 12.5% of Russian
campaigners are worried about the construction of oil and gas pipelines, which are often built with substandard equipment and are at risk of
the war include delays to previously-approved regulations.Baikal Nature Reserve.Lynx4502 (CC BY-SA 4.0)The head of environmental watchdog
to stimulate economic activity and give Russian businesses the chance to adapt to the new economic conditions created by Western sanctions
March to Deputy Prime Minister Viktoria Abramchenko, who oversees the environment, suggesting 43 regulatory changes.These included
multi-year delays for companies obliged to install emission monitoring and control systems after the receipt of a government environmental
passenger safety, the Kommersant business daily reported.A factory in Omsk, Russia.Ilya Makarov (CC BY 3.0)The pressure for specific changs
changed the Kremlin's political priorities and that major climate reforms could soon be scrapped.The Russian Energy Ministry may even review
economic problems deepen, there is likely to be no let up in efforts by officials and businesses to scrap regulations designed to protect
