The water sector regularly fails to report raw sewage spills and plays down the severity of those it does own up to, according to data from campaigners and testimonies from Environment Agency whistleblowers... Read more
Listen as the ENDS Report team examines the forever chemical that's decimating orca populations and other wildlife, reveals the masses of pollution incidents that are set to be ignored by the Environment Agency, and looks at whether new life can be breathed into the nation's sheep-scraped wastelands
Risk review – first quarter, 2022: The policy changes that need to be on your radar and the compliance deadlines to prepare for in the first three months of 2022 and beyond. PLUS the most important prosecutions and court rulings of the past three months
It’s the fourth anniversary of the publication of the 25-Year Environment Plan, but improvements are hard to spot, despite the government’s own appraisal painting a rosier picture than most are familiar with on the ground. Is it a good likeness? asks David Burrows
A litany of wild animals have been rendered extinct in the UK by human hands. Gareth Simkins takes a look at the species that are being reintroduced and future candidates
Under pressure to introduce WHO-aligned air quality standards in UK legislation, DEFRA’s imminent consultation – due in early 2022 – will reveal the true level of the government’s ambition on tackling fine particulate matter pollution. Isabella Kaminski reports
Carbon capture and storage infrastructure has a patchy record internationally and two previous government funding rounds collapsed. Gareth Simkins examines the industry’s renewed prospects
After a long and tortuous journey through parliament, the government’s ‘world-leading’ Environment Bill has finally passed into law. The ENDS team has scoured the resulting legislation to bring you everything you need to know about the raft of changes that the new act will bring about
Data shows a stretch of river in West Yorkshire is the most polluted bathing area in the country, regularly awash with very high levels of harmful bacteria
With just days to go to the crunch climate talks in Glasgow, read our guide to the key items on the agenda and what to expect if you are going
The Environment Bill’s flagship biodiversity net gain measure is intended to deliver more development - and more nature. Here’s everything you need to know about the duties the bill will place on developers and decision-makers, the market the mechanism will create and practical lessons from where net gain has already been implemented
Click through to view an interactive map with details of hydrogen sulphide readings at monitoring stations installed around the Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire
What the environment minister thinks about illegal river pollution, the Environment Agency's culpability and leaving water companies nowhere to hide
GDP is no longer a fit-for-purpose measure of a nation's economic health and if the world continues to destroy nature at its current rate Covid-19 could be just the "tip of the iceberg", the author of the The Economics of Biodiversity review tells ENDS
Dr Rolph Payet, executive secretary for the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, speaks to ENDS about the impact of the covid crisis on international cooperation, the threat of ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS, and the prospect of a new treaty on plastic waste
A local authority on Tyneside is seeking to provide renewable heat for buildings, including a leisure centre and a block of flats, using mine water from an abandoned colliery
A flood defence project, covering a 17-kilometre stretch of coastline in the south-west, is seeking to protect an 'internationally significant' economic area from rising sea levels and deliver environmental gain
A pilot project blending hydrogen with natural gas for domestic use has helped to demonstrate how the government’s ambitions to create a “low carbon hydrogen” future can be delivered
The considerable discretion afforded to those determining consent applications for onshore wind farms has been confirmed in a case brought before the Outer House of the Court of Session
Northern Ireland’s High Court has backed a judicial review claim that the planning regime should not treat battery storage facilities in the same way as electricity generating stations
Ned Westaway: A London council’s emergency transport plan, introduced to bring about a greener recovery for its streets after covid, can be put in place without an assessment of its wider air quality impacts, the High Court has ruled, but making it permanent is likely to require more scrutiny
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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... Read more
