Last week, Directive (EU) 2024/1799, on common rules promoting the repair of goods, was officially published in the Official Journal.
The Directi...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is under investigation by the environmental watchdog after a bee-killing pesticide, that was banned by the EU,...
Climate expert Chris Stark has been newly appointed to lead the UK clean energy taskforce.
He is expected to lead a "mission control centre" on clean energy, which will work with energy com...
In R (on the application of Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group) v Surrey County Council, the central issue was the correct application of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) p...
This week (8-14 July) is Bees' Needs Week, which is an annual event co-ordinated by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), working alongside a host...
The new Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Steve Reed, has outlined his five core priorities.
In a video message shared fro...
The newly appointed Secretary of State for Energy, Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, has set out his priorities for the department following his appointment on 5 July 2024.
In his message...
The new Labour administration has reiterated its plans to legislate on a broad range of employment law in their first 100 days in government, that will have implications for employees health and sa...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that longstanding restrictions on onshore wind farms in England will be lifted.
The new Labour Government intend to overhaul the N...
On 22 May 2024, former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a general election and Parliament was subsequently dissolved. Following several weeks of political campaigning, leafleting and debating, Lab...
Data collected from Copernicus Climate Change Service, a scientific organisation under the scope of the EU space programme, has shown that June 2024 was the warmest June recorded globally.
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The Scottish government have voted unanimously to pass the Circular Economy Bill.
First proposed in 2023, the Bill set...
A new study undertaken by environmental organisation Resolve, has found that protecting 1.2% of the Earth’s surface for nature would be enough to prevent the extinction of the world’s m...
Research from Ethical Consumer has found that more than 80% of the 27 companies they investigated are still using per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAs) in their products. PFAs, also known as f...
Between April 2019 and September 2020, Jeff Lane illegally felled over eight hectares of native woodland in the Gower Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) near Swansea.
In April 2022 h...
