Pippa Neill

A legal challenge brought by Friends of the Earth, which alleged that the government’s Climate Adaptation Plan breached human rights laws, has been dismissed on all four grounds.

DEFRA’s resource budget is to see a real-term decline of 1.9% between 2023-24 and 2024-25, the chancellor has revealed.

England’s nature watchdog may have “failed to comply with environmental law” when granting assent for the removal of 0.5 hectares of saltmarsh habitat on a protected site, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has said.

Following a landmark ruling on downstream emissions that was handed down earlier this year, the government is consulting on a new draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) guidance that sets out what must be considered by offshore oil and gas operators when assessing downstream emissions.

Former health secretary Victoria Atkins has been appointed shadow environment secretary in new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet. But who is she and where does she stand on environmental policy?

Angus Fire is ‘ready to order’ a ‘treatment train’ from the US to treat rainwater collected at its PFAS contaminated foam plant and fire test area in Bentham.

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Campaigners are calling for the government to change national planning policy in order to introduce ‘clearer rules’ to reduce agricultural pollution after new data revealed that factory farms have increased by 12% between 2016 and 2023.

The government has announced plans to reform the Bathing Water Regulations, including proposals to remove the automatic de-designation of sites after 5 years of ‘poor’ water quality, after admitting that the current system is ‘not working’.