A Cumbrian waste management firm has agreed to pay £60,000 to a local environmental charity in what is the first instance of an enforcement undertaking being accepted for alleged permit breaches relating to odour at an installation
Far fewer substances have been registered under the EU’s flagship chemicals regulation system than initially expected. But this may not indicate breaches are widespread, finds Gareth Simkins
DEFRA will provide more funding for councils newly affected by air quality obligations but will not force car manufacturers to contribute, it has told MPs
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has reduced the overspend of cleaning up the Sellafield nuclear plant but still has “a long way to go”, according to the government’s spending watchdog
The UK exceeded its national limit on emissions of nitrogen oxides in the first year it entered force, according to an update to a government database
Also in the news, Fracking chemicals implicated in weight gain, UK solar faces ‘cloudy political future’, £3.34m invasive species project launched by Scottish Natural Heritage, habitat improvement and water quality projects win share of £2.6m funding and UK ‘leading world’ in offshore wind development
The government must guarantee the independence of its green watchdog if it is to avoid the fate of other environmental bodies, Lord Deben has told a committee of MPs this morning
The Scottish Court of Session has struck down a challenge to the Scottish government’s effective prohibition on fracking
Horizon Nuclear Power has been granted a key European environmental approval for its proposed new power station in Wales
A waste removal tradesman who fly-tipped 2,000 tonnes of rubbish in the Devon countryside – and then set fire to it – has narrowly avoided jail.
Shower gels, face scrubs and toothpastes containing plastic microbeads may not be sold in England and Scotland from today
Also in the news, sheep farmer resigns from national parks review, government ‘abandons’ petrol, diesel and hybrid vehicles ban, Aldersgate Group examines resources and waste strategy, European Commission to report on Aarhus Convention compliance and £2m for Scottish councils to support energy efficiency
The House of Lords has approved a government-backed amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill that would allow an 'independent' watchdog to take the government to court should it infringe its environmental responsibilities
Water companies will invest £5bn on environmental measures by 2025 in a plan set out by the Environment Agency (EA).
Glasgow’s low emission zone will not be fully in place until the end of 2022, under plans confirmed by the city council last week
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Consultancies are evolving to meet the demands of a world where projects are larger and more complex and the supply chain is becoming ever more important, say participants in ENDS 2018 consultants roundtable. Rachel Salvidge reports
Plans to allow the UK’s proposed post-Brexit environment watchdog to issue advisory notices fall far short of matching the EU’s enforcement powers, say commentators. Conor McGlone reports
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
Rachel Reeves, chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, is frustrated by inaction on low-carbon policy. She talks to James Parsons about clean growth, carbon budgets, electric vehicles and women in the energy sector
Richard Macrory: Mitigation measures should not be considered when deciding whether a development project needs a full impact assessment under the Habitats Directive, according to an EU court ruling
The senior DEFRA civil servant responsible for implementing the government’s flagship 25-Year Environment Plan has been confirmed as a speaker at a major conference on natural capital due to take place next month
Nicola Power: Developers reusing excavated soils at construction sites could be inadvertently caught out by new tax rules targeting illegal landfill operators. Careful planning can avoid hefty costs
Five things we learned from yesterday’s DEFRA consultation on environmental governance after the UK leaves the EU, including that the proposed environment watchdog will not be in place by exit day and is not likely to have powers to take the government to court
England is home to the bulk of the world’s chalk streams, but they are being threatened by drought, abstraction and pollution. Rachel Salvidge investigates
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