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Compliance news

Judge green lights private prosecution of Southern Water over chalk stream pollution claims

Pembrokeshire firm handed penalty of more than £6,000 for waste offences

Farmer ordered to pay more than £2,000 for repeated slurry pollution

Unannounced inspections find compliance failings at notorious landfill

Scottish government investigated over river pollution response

Scottish government admits failing climate change duties

‘Insufficient evidence’ of corporate manslaughter in relation to Teesside deaths, HSE finds

‘Flagrant disregard for the law’: Mother and son sentenced for illegal waste offences

Monitoring of illegal landfill suspended over health and safety fears

London borough records highest number of fly-tipping enforcement actions

Compliance analysis

Will Coffey’s steer to water companies ‘throttle environmental ambition on the sly’?

The EA now has teeth but at what cost? Why the waste industry is nervous about unlimited fines

Why a water company’s greenwashing fine is a lesson to all

‘Flying by the seats of our pants’: Why did two men die at one of England’s most highly regulated environmental hazard sites?

Why the first peat burning prosecution is not quite the success conservationists hoped for

Primer: HSE’s recommendations for regulating PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in the UK, explained

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

How much do we know about the UK’s PFAS problem?

Is the UK absent from the fight against PFAS ‘forever chemical’ pollution?

The ENDS Briefing: The policy changes to expect from the Environment Act targets

Water Companies: Enforcement Undertakings tracker (2013 - 2023)

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Legal comment

Why a judicial review of sea fishing licences underlines the weight being given to environmental conservation

The (legal) lessons to be drawn from the failed High Court ULEZ challenge

Why developer CG Fry’s nutrient neutrality challenge is unlikely to succeed on appeal - for now

Why the dismissal of ClientEarth’s case against Shell will have ramifications for other NGOs seeking to change corporate behaviour

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

Legal comment: Why a quashed appeal for wind farm planning permission will bring uncertainty for developers

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