The devolved nations and Europe

The Scottish government has unveiled a £100m Green Jobs Fund, £1.6bn for decarbonising buildings and put reaching net zero by 2045 at the heart of its planned £2bn Scottish National Investment Bank

ENDS takes a look at 14 of the biggest policy changes to prepare for as people head back to work, if not the office, this autumn

The government plans to set up a new process to establish guidelines for industrial emissions control. Gareth Simkins looks into what needs to be done

DEFRA will open a consultation in a few months about how best available techniques to address pollution from industry will be handled after the end of the Brexit transition period

The National Farmers Union’s Welsh division has criticised the Welsh government’s new air quality strategy for pursuing “regulatory solutions as the default position”.

A white paper on new legal controls on air pollution in Wales will be published in the spring, according to the Welsh government’s new air quality strategy

Natural Resources Wales is set to take over regulation of the Kronospan particleboard factory in Chirk from Wrexham County Borough Council

Houses on one of the UK’s most polluted streets will be demolished to meet air quality targets with £6m of government funding

Official figures show a “significant decline” in the water quality status of Northern Ireland’s lakes, with only one of the province’s lake water bodies now classified as being in ‘good’ or better status

The Office for Environmental Protection needs a chair who is capable of securing sufficient government funding and with the acumen to steer the watchdog through a complex political landscape, green groups have said

A backlog of farming planning applications in Northern Ireland has been cut in half after an agriculture minister advised planning authorities to base applications on old aerial ammonia limits, despite evidence showing EU-protected sites are awash with excess nutrient pollution

The government has insisted that high environmental standards will be preserved by a new plan to control the UK’s post-Brexit internal market, dismissed as an 'assault on devolution' by the Scottish National Party