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

‘Blatant attack on democracy’: UK government blocks glass from Scotland’s DRS

The Scottish first minister has accused the UK government of 'trying to undermine devolution', after it announced that Scotland’s deposit return scheme could go ahead, but only if it excludes glass

Welsh coal mine continues operations without planning permission

Local councils to gain power to develop land for less under reported Labour plans

Civil service unions pause strike action after offer of ‘meaningful talks’

DEFRA to boost upland farm ELMs payments following NFU campaign

Water companies urged to get drought plans ready ahead of summer

Guide launched to help global corporates create verifiable nature targets

MPs vote against REUL bill ‘non-regression’ amendment on environmental protections

Welsh Water ‘very sorry’ after admitting to leaking 80 million more litres per day than reported

Two arrested following report or eagle’s nest disturbance

Wild boar livers used to identify harmful and emerging ‘forever chemicals’ at contamination hotspots

Analysis

The ENDS Green Cities Index 2023: Overall rankings

Interview: The EFRA committee chair on ‘prickly’ Coffey and Labour’s play for the rural vote

Will the government’s plans stop microplastics from slipping through the net?

EXCLUSIVE: Officials’ advice ‘repeatedly ignored’ by ministers as DEFRA morale plummets, whistleblowers reveal

The reality of finding Britain's ‘lost’ rainforests

The EU-era green laws that the government plans to scrap by the end of the year

RISK REVIEW: Key policy changes and deadlines, PLUS plans for tackling PFAS and EIA reform concerns

Six months of Thérèse Coffey: Has she eased DEFRA’s 'culture of delay'?

‘Sham and unacceptable’: Do DEFRA's claims of air quality strategy engagement stand up to scrutiny?

Chickens, cars, and ‘climate cartels’: Is competition law stifling the greening of UK business?

The future of natural capital: 11 things you need to know about the Nature Markets Framework

Leaked: The failure to regulate England’s most dangerous sites - including Buncefield

‘The unethical environmental lawyer’: Does the legal profession need to rethink its green ethics?

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

ECO CHAMBER podcast

ECO CHAMBER PODCAST: Agencies ignored, Oxford’s glory, and Rewilding Britain's Alastair Driver on tackling rewilding myths

Peat prosecution, Labour’s leak, and REUL’s sunset uplands

The trees that toppled the Tories, Green Party gains, and Labour’s EA vision

Drought danger, sewage sanctions, and DEFRA’s dire straits

Trade deal troubles and SSSI bulldozer baddie banged up

OEP intervention, ‘hitchhiking’ bacteria and DEFRA’s transparency problem

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.

SPECIAL REPORT Green Cities Index

The ENDS Green Cities Index 2023: Overall rankings

Which is the cleanest city in England? Which scores best for air pollution? Where are the most eco-friendly residents? View the Green Cities Index in full to find out.

‘Fantastic achievement’: Oxford named England’s greenest city

Green Cities Index 2023: England’s 10 greenest cities revealed

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

Green Cities Index 2023: Global cities going green

Green Cities Index 2023: Get the latest data on your city

Interviews

Interview: London’s deputy mayor on why City Hall won’t be cowed by ULEZ backlash

Interview: George Monbiot on taking the fight to Big Farmer

Interview: Peter Kellett on a 'perilous time for environmental law'

Interview: ClientEarth’s new boss on the next chapter in environmental litigation

Watchdog unleashed: Natalie Prosser on how the OEP is already having an impact

Interview: NFU president Minette Batters on why we’re all complicit in farm pollution

Case studies

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 Cornish project may provide a solution to disruption fears as the UK phases out gas boilers

The Debrief: How do you solve a problem like Japanese knotweed?

The debrief: How a beaver reintroduction project transformed a polluted protected site in Cheshire

The debrief: How the Greater Manchester Authority mapped the natural habitat on its doorstep

Peat prosecution, Labour’s
leak, and REUL’s
sunset uplands

The ECO Chamber podcast, Episode 41

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?

Green Cities Index 2023: York

Green Cities Index 2023: Worthing

Green Cities Index 2023: Wigan

AN ENDS REPORT FILM

SEVERN: The poisoning
of Britain’s Amazon

Now available to view

Video

WATCH THE TRAILER > SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain’s Amazon

WATCH > ‘We go out less and less’ | SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain’s Amazon

WATCH > ‘Sweating the assets’ | SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain’s Amazon

WATCH > ‘The estuary has changed’ | SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain’s Amazon

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

Legal comment

Why a ‘modest but meaningful’ contribution to conservation can legally trump human rights to property

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

Why the case against Bristol Airport’s expansion is a bellwether for the future of climate litigation

Legal comment: Why Dartmoor’s wild camping case will have wider implications for the countryside

Why directors can be personally held to account for environmental harm caused by their companies

Legal comment: Why EU nature conservation laws have survived Brexit - for now

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

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

ENDS TV

Toxic timebomb:
Tackling the UK’s
PFAS problem

Watch on demand

Join this webinar, where we examine the increasing focus on the environmental impacts of PFAS in the UK, and its implications. We discuss how firms in the US have been exposed to huge liabilities for causing PFAS pollution, explore the tighter regulatory controls that could be put in place in the UK, and what this means for environmental professionals