Development of new water-reduction policies relating to leakage, smart metering, product labelling, building regulations and water-efficiency communication has been put on hold despite multiple warnings that parts of England could soon run out of water... Read more
A series of new government amendments to the Environment Bill have been tabled that would give the government powers to issue guidance to the post-Brexit green watchdog and empower Natural England to create new species conservation strategies. Here’s what you need to know
Boris Johnson’s pledge to protect 30% of the UK for nature will require both new protected areas and improvements to existing land designations to make them fit for nature recovery, say green groups. Catherine Early reports
More than half of waste operators could be breaking the law by misclassifying hazardous waste and firms could find their compliance costs skyrocketing. The EA says the matter is a ‘priority’ and the sector fears a crackdown. Conor McGlone reports
Farmers can expect an inspection from the Environment Agency around once every 263 years and a visit is much more likely to relate to animal health than environmental protection. So why isn’t the agency doing more to protect waterways from agricultural pollution? Adam Branson reports
The waste industry has welcomed the EA’s ambitious plan to clear its permitting backlog but says the agency needs financial help from the Treasury to avoid unintended negative consequences elsewhere. Conor McGlone reports.
The proportion of England’s rivers in good ecological health has plateaued at 14%, according to official classifications published last week, while the status of more than 100 has been rated as ‘bad’. Use ENDS’ map to view the locations of these water bodies
Energy from waste plants have long been preferred as a destination for rubbish over landfill sites, but are they really the most low carbon option? Waste management policy decisions made now will set the level of greenhouse gas impacts for the next generation, reports David Burrows
Financier, DEFRA board director and rewilding advocate Ben Goldsmith talks to ENDS about why Britain needs to be bolder about bringing back lost species and how he hopes to create a ‘green heart of nature restoration’ on his Somerset farm
With rewilding gaining in popularity and biodiversity net gain soon to be mandated, more private money is becoming interested in what some believe will become a ‘potentially huge market’. James Fair reports
The developers behind Suffolk’s Sizewell C nuclear reactor have put forward ‘significant’ material design changes to reduce the scheme’s environmental impacts in an attempt to find common ground with opponents
The chair of Natural England Tony Juniper has warned yet again that his organisation is failing to properly scrutinise planning applications, protect the country’s national nature reserves and defend illegal raptor persecution because of chronic underinvestment
Up to 440,000 workers with health conditions that are worsened by air pollution are still being exposed to poor air quality in the industrial workplace in the UK, new research has found
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UPDATED: Details of nearly 30 new enforcement undertakings with a value of more than £1.5m have been added to the ENDS Report enforcement undertakings database, as the use of the civil sanction as a tool to deal with environmental offences continues to grow. Click through for the full list, compiled by ENDS
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SPECIAL REPORT: 15% of species are formally classified as at risk of extinction in Great Britain. ENDS hears from those on the frontline of efforts to reverse nature's decline
What are the most common reasons for permit non-compliance and how can they be avoided? Adam Branson investigates
There are some regulations that the Environment Agency has stopped enforcing entirely – does this reflect a change in the regulator’s approach to enforcement or a lack of capacity to tackle serious environmental crimes?
The provision of a series of new green spaces has delivered a statistically significant drop in visitors to a special protection area over a period when housing numbers have grown by 13%
A major exercise to collect information on more than 2,000 trees has armed Greater Manchester councils with the hard data needed to win green funding
An expanded district heat scheme deriving warmth from an unlikely source is helping more than a thousand homes cut their energy bills in north London
Biffa combined its in-house knowledge with expertise from across Europe to build the UK’s first recycling plant turning PET back into food-grade PET
Having switched to renewable electricity and gas, Bentley Motors has turned its attention to reducing water use at its Crewe factory. A first-of-its-kind project is projected to save hundreds of thousands of litres a year
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