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BREAKING: DESNZ carries out mini-reshuffle of ministerial briefs

The Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has reshuffled its ministerial responsibilities and appears to have dropped net zero from the list of ministerial briefs, according to an email seen by ENDS

Sycamore Gap tree to ‘live on’ after shock felling

‘Addiction to chemical use’: Application submitted to use banned insecticide for fourth year in a row

Wales sent just 1.6% of its household waste to landfill, latest figures show

Food security should be ‘more explicitly’ incorporated into the design of ELMs, MPs say

Convictions for wildlife crime showing a ‘concerning decline’

Government moves to decarbonise steel industry ‘call into question arguments for Whitehaven coal mine consent’

Government launches survey on commercial fishing impacts at offshore MPAs

Newly-designated Welsh bathing waters fail on water quality

Ofwat confirms investigation into Thames Water over £37.5m dividend payment

‘Significant milestone’: Six beaver families to return to Cairngorms national park

In-depth

‘Beyond negligent’: Government ignored official advice when scrapping key air quality regulations

Why a landmark win against the government over its river protection plans leaves unanswered questions

Net gain regulations to see habitats of ‘significant wildlife benefit’ more vulnerable to development

Does building a wind farm on peatland ever make sense?

The mechanics of bringing carnivorous plants back to a degraded peatland site

‘Internet of bins’: Will digital waste tracking be the magic wand to solve waste crime?

‘No-one takes the UK seriously any more’: What can the UK actually achieve at COP28?

Who’s doing what in the reshuffled DEFRA team?

Are government consultations worth the paper they are written on?

Why is Northern Ireland‘s environment department stuck in gridlock?

Why a court decision to slash an ‘unreasonable’ EA fine has implications for all regulated industry

Could Scotland be the first part of the UK to criminalise ecocide?

How a carbon credits scheme is seeking to speed up energy efficiency retrofits in the housing sector

DEFRA's new nature pledges

Government ditches pledge to strengthen nature recovery purposes of protected landscapes

Government pledges new national park but rejects proposal to give national landscapes stronger voice in planning

Environment secretary launches competition for a new national forest

‘Troubling’: Majority of SSSIs unassessed in last decade, new analysis shows

‘Serious concern’: One Natural England employee assigned to SSSI assessments for every 73 sites, figures reveal

Ranked: The national parks where the most money is spent on failing green farming schemes

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Government ‘way off track’ on nature targets, warn insiders

‘Huge concern’: Updated biodiversity figures show continued decline in protected site condition

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‘Beyond negligent’: Government ignored official advice when scrapping key air quality regulations

Net gain regulations to see habitats of ‘significant wildlife benefit’ more vulnerable to development

Scottish estate owner and game shooting advocate appointed DEFRA minister

WATCH NOW > BIODIVERSITY NET GAIN: How the developer of a 3,500-home scheme is building homes for people – and wildlife

Why a landmark win against the government over its river protection plans leaves unanswered questions

Legal comment

Why a court dismissed claims that DEFRA’s sewage spill reduction plan was unlawful

Why a judicial review of sea fishing licences underlines the weight being given to environmental conservation

The (legal) lessons to be drawn from the failed High Court ULEZ challenge

Why developer CG Fry’s nutrient neutrality challenge is unlikely to succeed on appeal - for now

Why the dismissal of ClientEarth’s case against Shell will have ramifications for other NGOs seeking to change corporate behaviour

Why a court ruling on when Japanese Knotweed damages are payable will have ripple effects

THE BUSINESS OF ... BIODIVERSITY NET GAIN

Building homes for
people – and wildlife – on
a major housing scheme

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Case studies

How government agencies are delivering a scheme to try and clean up one of England’s most metal polluted rivers

How a joint-venture secured the first planning consent for a UK carbon capture project

How a first-of-its-kind tidal energy project gained planning permission

How a developer created its first ‘biodiversity bank’ ahead of net gain requirements

How one council programmed wind and solar power into its local plan

How Network Rail secured the first organisational licence for great crested newts

'It's like writing a book': How a seaweed farm successfully won millions of pounds of BEIS funding

How a Somerset rewilding project has harnessed AI to boost monitoring capacity

The debrief: How a farmer-led project transformed its business to sell biodiversity, carbon, and nutrient neutrality credits

Urban wetlands and subterranean ‘super bins’: four pioneering projects in the spotlight

Bathing water stink, ANOB
or not to AONB, and Suez
lays waste to the EA

The ECO Chamber, Episode 69

ECO CHAMBER podcast

ECO CHAMBER PODCAST: Bathing water stink, AONB or not to AONB and Suez lays waste to the EA

EP 68: EA shake-up scoop, climate COP-out, PLUS the nightmare nurdles choking the planet

Ep 67: ECO CHAMBER EPISODE: Fish justice, zombie power project purge PLUS Plantlife on net gain and grasslands

EP 66: Coffey quits, curtains for Curtin, and Barclay’s big brief

EP 65: Water framework fracas, the silent King's speech, and the Environment Act, two years on

EP 64: LURB sick, Wales' sorry sewage saga PLUS Fish Legal on how to win eco-battles




AN ENDS REPORT FILM

WILDERNESS
The wounding of
England’s last great
wild spaces

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Wildnerness: read more

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Paid to Fail: How the taxpayer bankrolled the decline of England’s last great wild spaces

Ep X: WILDERNESS: The Wounding of England's Last Great Wild Spaces

‘Serious concern’: One Natural England employee assigned to SSSI assessments for every 73 sites, figures reveal

Ranked: The national parks where the most money is spent on failing green farming schemes

England’s wounded wildlife sites: the latest data on the health of SSSIs, mapped

£330m poured into failing green farming schemes, ENDS investigation reveals

POWER LIST 2023

Meet the UK’s 100
most influential
environmental
professionals

Are you on the list?

The 2023 ENDS Power List names the 100 UK environmental professionals who have made the greatest impact in the past two years – as nominated by their colleagues, clients and competitors.

Power List

Power List 2023: the UK’s 100 most influential environmental professionals

Power List 2023: The most influential environmental consultants

Power List 2023: The most impactful environmental lawyers

Power List 2023: The campaigners who are shaping green policy and legislation

Power List 2023: 10 unsung heroes making a difference

Power List 2023: The private sector pioneers

Power List 2023: The environmental professionals leading the way in the public sector

SPECIAL REPORT

Is your city a
green oasis...
...or a grey desert?

How much green space do residents have access to?

Are your neighbours eco-warriors, or eco-laggards?


Explore the GREEN CITIES INDEX to find out

Explore interactive data showing English cities’ performance against more than 30 environmental indicators in five categories: public realm; green behaviour; air quality; climate; and water quality.

Interviews

Interview: Caroline Lucas on her decision to step down from Parliament

Interview: What Ofwat’s price review chief is looking for in water company business plans

Interview: The new IPCC chair on science, politics, and knowing when to hold back

Interview: Rosamund Kissi-Debrah on her disappointment in Sir Keir Starmer

INTERVIEW: The interim EA chief on the ‘toxic’ sewage debate and his one great fear

INTERVIEW: Lord Deben on climate immigration to come and how the Environment Agency lost power

Data & insight

MAPPED: The UK sites where PFAS has been detected

MAPPED: The storm overflows that spilled sewage 301,091 times in 2022

MAPPED: How clean is the water at England’s beaches and other bathing areas?

MAPPED: How clean are England’s bathing waters?

MAPPED: The sites where Higher Level Stewardship funding has been paid out

The ENDS Green Cities Index 2023: Overall rankings

AN ENDS REPORT FILM

SEVERN: The poisoning
of Britain’s Amazon

Now available to view

Video

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WATCH > ‘Such a sad state of affairs’ | SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain’s Amazon

SPECIAL REPORTS

RISK REVIEW: Key policy changes and deadlines, PLUS standard rules shake-up, chemicals divergence and more

The policy changes and compliance deadlines that need to be on your radar in the next three months

The ENDS Briefing: biodiversity net gain

Why Exeter has topped the ENDS Clean Cities Index 2022

Power List 2022: the UK's 100 most influential environmental professionals

Environment Bill briefing

Fines Monitor

  

SEARCH: The ENDS Report Fines Monitor live table →

Click through to view a live table containing details of tens of millions of pounds of financial penalties issued by regulators in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for breaches of environmental regulations


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WATCH ON DEMAND - Toxic timebomb: Tackling the UK’s PFAS problem

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WATCH NOW: The green industrial revolution: the clean economy and shift to low carbon

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