Environmental law

The Environment Agency (EA) has extended the list of convictions that must be declared when a person applies for an environmental permit for waste activities or installations

Scottish ministers can pass a law to ban fracking, according to legal advice commissioned by Friends of the Earth Scotland

Waste firms should review their export contingency plans in case of disruption at ports should the UK crash out of the EU without a deal, the government has warned

Major chemicals firm Ineos has asked the government if it can avoid the costs of meeting environmental requirements at its Seal Sands acrylonitrile plant

Severn Trent Water has been fined £500,000 for polluting a park with thousands of gallons of raw sewage, in what Natural England says was one of the worst cases of damage to a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) it has witnessed

Packham and co have set up Wild Justice to keep DEFRA, Natural England and the rest of the UK nature regulators’ feet to fire. James Fair reports

Brexit is opening up the doors to the prospect of divergence in environmental standards across the UK, finds Conor McGlone, setting the scene set for an increase in ‘waste tourism’

Ten of the biggest stories from the past week: Spring statement: six things you need to know; India bans plastic waste imports; UK set to miss biodiversity goals; Go-ahead for mandatory biodiversity net gain plan and more

To mark International Women’s Day, ENDS has put together a selection of women in the environment sector, each of whom are blazing a trail at the top of their fields.

As EU exit day looms, the devolved administrations have been slow to prepare their post-Brexit plans for the environment. Simon Pickstone asks what’s causing the delay