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Illegal sewage dumping by water firms widespread and frequent, investigation reveals
Water companies have been discharging untreated wastewater into rivers in breach of their permits on a regular basis, it was revealed in a BBC Panorama investigation that aired last night
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Campaigners mull legal action after councillors overturn planning committee vote to approve Southampton Airport runway extension
Campaigners have said they are taking legal advice after full council members resolved to approve plans for an extension to Southampton International Airport’s runway, overturning a separate planning committee vote against the application on climate change grounds.
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EA ‘confident’ Brexit lorry park designed in line with secret environmental advice
The Environment Agency has said it is confident a new huge lorry park in Ashford has been designed and is being operated in line with the environmental advice it gave as a statutory consultee, even though it continues to refuse to make its assessments public
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Majority of airborne microplastics come from roads, finds research
A study has found that 8% of airborne microplastics came from the effects of road traffic, with researchers warning that plastics in the atmosphere now 'spiral around the globe'
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Community prepares fly swarm evidence against water firm
A community is gathering evidence to support its bid for an abatement notice to be served against Southern Water over fly infestations
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'Environmental vandalism': legal measures halt unauthorised woodland felling
A temporary stop notice has been put in place following the illegal felling of protected woodland in Hampshire
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Only 7% of of Britain’s native woodlands in ‘good ecological condition’
Britain’s native woodlands are in a sorry state with just 7% in good condition and many suffering from a wide range of threats, including the planning regime, according to a new report
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Natural England faces legal challenge over HS2 felling of ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ woodland
Campaigners have announced they are to launch legal proceedings against Natural England for issuing a licence to HS2, allowing it to fell part of an ancient woodland in the Chilterns
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Housing policy undermines 25-Year Environment Plan, Jenrick told
Housing minister Robert Jenrick has been urged to rethink housing policy that forces councils to consider developing sites that are key to nature networks, in an open letter published in The Times yesterday, signed by 31 senior conservation figures
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Clean-up underway after hundreds of plastic bottles fall into river Dee
Natural Resources Wales have begun a clean-up operation after a lorry overturned, tipping diesel and plastic into a river
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Community prepares fly swarm evidence against water firm
A community is gathering evidence to support its bid for an abatement notice to be served against Southern Water over fly infestations
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'No consistent approach': EA review of groundwater flooding gives cause for concern
There is 'no consistent approach to planning, preparing, responding or recovering from groundwater flooding', an Environment Agency review has concluded
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REACH whitepaper
The UK has begun its transition to a UK-only REACH domestic regulatory framework for chemicals. You can find out all about your responsibilities as a business as well as the general understanding in the industry of the new legislation in Adler and Allan’s whitepaper.
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