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The water sector must investigate more than 700 sewer outfalls to find out why they are dumping raw sewage into rivers so frequently and improve hundreds more by 2025 in an attempt to improve water quality, but which firms have the biggest task ahead? Asks Rachel Salvidge... Read more
Permitting delays at the Environment Agency are making it difficult for businesses in the biowaste sector to prepare for the significant changes they must implement to comply with impending EU rules, according to the Association for Renewable Energy and clean technology
Environment secretary George Eustice has set out his intention to set multiple legally binding targets for water quality, air quality, biodiversity and waste, saying that composite goals 'miss certain things'
The House of Lords last night voted through a number of amendments to the Agriculture Bill relating to pesticide use, food import standards and climate change targets
The environment secretary George Eustice has been told by 17 conservation organisations that changes and delays to agricultural funding arrangements by DEFRA are negatively impacting farming policy and risk jeopardising its new nature payments scheme, which they say is ‘lagging behind schedule’
The MHCLG has appointed the co-chair of the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission to spearhead a new advisory design body to help ensure that ‘beauty, design and high environmental standards’ become ‘fundamental to every planning application’ in England
The proportion of England’s rivers in good ecological health has plateaued at 14%, according to official classifications published last week, while the status of more than 100 has been rated as ‘bad’. Use ENDS’ map to view the locations of these water bodies
Green group’s worst fears were confirmed yesterday when DEFRA published its overdue river health classifications revealing that not one water body in England could be deemed as being in good condition. Here’s what you need to know
EA raid on underground bunker yields drug factory; Environment Bill: Why setting legally binding nature targets is not going to be easy; Feargal Sharkey set to launch legal action against government over water
Some say DEFRA is exaggerating its performance against global goals as nature continues its freefall and species extinctions accelerate. James Agyepong-Parsons reports
A major United Nations nature report highlights how global failure to achieve international biodiversity targets set 10 years ago is contributing to species extinctions which are accelerating at an unprecedented rate
Updated monthly: ENDS’ new pollution tracker logs some of the worst pollution incidents taking place across the UK each month. The latest update includes news of diesel pouring into EU-protected sites following a rail accident, and a mysterious agent that killed 10,000 fish
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