Fossil fuels will be eliminated from the UK’s electricity mix by 2035, business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng announced yesterday, to reduce exposure to volatile wholesale energy prices and accelerate efforts to reach net zero... Read more
Is the UK government’s long-awaited Net Zero Strategy a ‘credible mechanism to drive delivery’ or is it full of ‘major holes and optimistic assumptions’? David Burrows investigates
Green groups have welcomed many of the environmental initiatives announced as part of the G7 summit over the weekend, but with many commitments short on detail they have called for the pledges to be followed up by solid policies. Here’s what you need to know
An initiative to increase the amount of plastic packaging being recycled is generating momentum across the UK, but complaints are surfacing about the fate of the material once it arrives in Poland and questions over duty of care have been raised. Conor McGlone investigates
If other jurisdictions replicate a Dutch Court’s reasoning in finding that Shell must cut its emissions deeper and faster than planned, more big polluters could find themselves in court. Just how far will the ramifications be felt? Danny Halpin reports
It’s been more than two decades since Erin Brockovich proved PG&E was poisoning a Californian town and she’s been holding polluters across the world to account ever since
The victims of what is reported to be the largest modern slavery ring ever to be uncovered in the UK talk to ENDS about how they ended up working in a recycling plant, and how they eventually escaped their captors
The need to retrofit urban areas to cope with a changing climate, and mitigate its existing impacts, is one of the great engineering challenges of our times. A project in Cardiff seeks to deliver these objectives through green infrastructure
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
Professor Jim Skea speaks to ENDS about his new role as chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, championing inclusivity, and whether the risk of climate disaster keeps him up at night
It's 10 years since Ella Adoo Kissi-Debrah died, a girl who went on to become the first person in the world to have air pollution listed on their death certificate. ENDS met with Ella's mother, and founder and director of the Ella Roberta Family Foundation, to discuss the politics of ULEZ, the ongoing ‘war on motorists’, and what she would do first if she worked in DEFRA
John Curtin talks to ENDS about what the sewage scandal has done to public trust - and EA staff, what he thinks of scrapping the Water Framework Directive, and why merging the EA and Ofwat would be a ‘retro step’ - with exclusive subscriber audio content
A wildlife trust is using artificial intelligence to help monitor its progress in ‘rewilding’ an area of once intensively grazed farmland on a nature reserve. Michael Donnelly spoke to the trust and the firm behind the technology about how it works on the ground
Announced as a biodiversity net gain credit pilot scheme in 2020, a project in Norfolk is generating new revenue streams by selling ecosystem credits, ranging from those for biodiversity and carbon to nutrients. Michael Donnelly reports on how the evolution from traditional farming took place
Green Cities Index 2023: From subterranean bins to wetlands creation projects, some innovative environmental work is being carried out in urban areas up and down the UK. Adam Branson asks environmental leaders from four city councils to share their experiences of a recent project
A ruling that the Scottish government had failed to act in accordance with Scotland’s National Marine Plan when varying fishing licences demonstrates the weight being given to environmental conservation by the courts, writes Laura Tainsh
Earlier this month the High Court dismissed a claim previously branded as having 'considerable importance' to how Natural England’s nutrient neutrality advice is applied by local councils. While its chances of success at appeal are limited, writes Ned Westaway, the passing of the Retained EU Law Act could make future such cases harder to predict
The High Court’s dismissal of ClientEarth’s ground-breaking claim against the directors of Shell shows that minority activist shareholders hoping to use the courts to change corporate behaviour have a mountain to climb, writes Simon Tilling
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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
