Business Green

APRIL 25, 2023

Government announces plan to put targets to reduce storm overflows on a legal footing, as MPs block Labour's rival bill for tackling water pollution crisis

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On 1 November green groups submitted a letter of complaint to Defra after the Government failed to meet a legal deadline on setting new environmental targets. If it finds there has been a serious failure to comply with environmental law, then further action is possible. Read the complaint in full, and see list of signatories, here.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

While flue gas is used across various industries, from petrochemical to manufacturing, power generation, and automobile industries, governments have erected environmental laws to ensure the production and distribution processes are safe for the environment. Even in themselves, flue gas impurities cause air pollution.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The push for domestic laws to punish haze-causing companies comes days after a spat between Malaysia and Indonesia over the origin of severe air pollution in Sarawak linked to burning peatlands.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

Reducing the reliance of water companies on storm overflows is important to help cut pollution in waterways, and earlier this year the Government announced it was working with Philip Dunne MP on shared ambitions to tackle high levels of sewage in UK rivers, following the introduction of his Private Member’s Bill in 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk. They defend 18.8

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

On Wednesday 5 to Thursday 6 July, the High Court will hear a legal challenge that aims to force the Government to toughen up its plan for reducing sewage dumped in England’s rivers and seas. This is our chance to force the Government to put in place a robust plan to put an end to the sewage scandal blighting our country.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

According to Johnathan White, lawyer and expert on corporate climate accountability at environmental law charity ClientEarth, this is because sustainability communication has “gone through the roof,” especially over the past five years. That’s how PR strategies work.” What Constitutes Greenwashing? Greenwashing isn’t a new strategy.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

TORONTO — Sarah Petrevan, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement after the federal government tabled legislation holding it accountable to meeting its climate targets: “Climate targets are important signals in the fight against climate change, but promises are nothing without accountability and a plan to meet them.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The UK government has appointed a law firm with a history of defending fossil fuel companies over environmental disasters to provide legal services for the upcoming COP26 climate summit. While DLA Piper highlights its environmental credentials in the announcement, the international law firm — whose global revenue last year was over £1.5

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Detailed analysis of more than 100 EU exit statutory instruments laid by Defra prompts campaigners to warn of 'significant governance gaps in the application, interpretation and enforcement of environmental law' post-Brexit. Ministers have insisted that the process was necessary to ensure continuity of environmental legislation.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

River conservation groups reacted with alarm to the news (on 29 August) that the government plans to ease restrictions on developers’ need to ensure the nutrient neutrality (NN) of their projects, in a bid to unblock house building “held up due to defective EU laws”. The complexity of the issue is explored in this article.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

In recent months, concerns about nutrient pollution from intensive chicken units, livestock farming and from sewage have escalated on both sides of the Welsh-English border, with phosphate and other pollutants fuelling algal blooms that turn the river into ‘pea soup’.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2022

Wildlife charity RSPB has urged Tory leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to "urgently" commit to protecting nature laws, claiming that recent anti-regulation rhetoric from both candidates could jeopardise the UK's nature protection goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

One challenge which EMR faces is how it handles a series of non-biodegradable chemicals found in some plastics which are categorised as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Scientists have only realised more recently that they create persistent pollution problems. The impact on EMR’s operations is – in some ways – profound.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 30, 2019

government’s introduction of the Climate Change Accountability Act : “B.C. is showing what it takes to design a strong climate plan and turn it into action – and with this new accountability framework the government is taking another important step. The post New law will hold B.C. The post New law will hold B.C.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

ClientEarth urges government to overhaul Clean Air Strategy as figures show UK is still off track for meeting a raft of legal targets. And if the government fails to review its strategy for meeting its legal air quality targets, it could be dragged back to court, the NGO warned.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 8, 2020

Now it would appear that both governments are taking advantage of the pandemic to further their efforts to gut environmental oversight. Ontario Premiere Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government has systematically dismantled climate action and environmental protections.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chose the very day of the summit to announce that his government will push off the deadlines for phase-outs of methane gas-burning boilers, as well as sales of new gasoline and diesel-fueled cars.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

New UK Best Available Techniques regime will aim to help curb industrial air pollution by adapting EU approach for British industries. The framework is part of the process of translating EU rules into UK law, with the government today promising to deliver higher standards than those imposed through the EU's own BAT framework.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Long-awaited environmental legislation that promises to establish the UK's first legally-binding nature targets and oversee them through a new, largely-independent watchdog has finally passed into law today, despite lingering concerns that the law may still leave "gaping holes" in green protections.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Latest report from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee warns the UK's current strategy to combat air pollution needs to be beefed up. The report, which drew on evidence from health experts, local councils, and campaign groups, urges the government to firm up its commitment to clean air.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 21, 2023

James Parish Council steered polluting facilities into Black neighborhoods along the Mississippi River. As a result, Black residents there are forced to breathe in more pollution and face a higher risk of related health problems, according to the suit filed by Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2020

The government has today offered a further glimpse of its plans to develop new legally-binding targets for waste and resources, air pollution, biodiversity and water quality in the UK, promising a "robust, evidence-led process" for setting the goals in statute by the end of October 2022.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

WWF and ClientEarth lodge complaint with the Office for Environmental Protection over Environment Agency's failure to impose sanctions on farmers who breach pollution laws. But despite the widespread breaches of environmental laws, just only one civil sanction was applied.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

Nikki Reisch, climate and energy director at the Center for International Environmental Law, argued that businesses have legal obligations to stop causing climate-related harms, whether or not governments are fulfilling their own obligations. “It’s Legal experts dominated the three-day hearing, held from April 23 to 25.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

Long-awaited publication of government's environmental principles for policymaking triggers warnings from NGOs that green protections could now be watered down.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The article misleadingly refers to a report of ours, which [lists] emergency measures governments *could* turn to *if* Russia cuts off all gas to the EU this winter.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Ms Elliott-Smith, an industry expert and environmental consultant, is represented by Leigh Day solicitors who sent a pre action letter to the Government on her behalf. They make the case that in creating the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, the Government has unlawfully excluded municipal waste incinerators from the scheme.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

National Trust, RSPB, and ZSL among coalition of groups backing complaint to the Office of Environmental Protection over government’s failure to set new set of legal green targets. The proposal for an independent review of why the deadline was missed was also dismissed.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 30, 2020

government putting in place regulations as part of its Zero-Emission Vehicles Act that will require automakers to sell a growing percentage of electric vehicles in the province: “While electric vehicle sales in B.C. These laws will help supply keep pace with demand, while sending a clear signal to the market that B.C. The post New B.C.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Environment Bill has been hit with a fresh round of delays after an 11th hour move late yesterday evening from the government to remove the landmark legislation from the current Parliamentary session's agenda.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Proposals to block solar farms, revive fracking, and roll back planning rules are further fuelling the impression the government really is engaged in an 'attack on nature'. It is a myth that we can't grow the economy and the environment together," he said.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Thousands of individuals were exposed to dangerous substances from 1953 to 1987 due to the dangerously polluted water at the Military Station, Camp Lejeune. A new federal law, though, is nearing completion. Up until this point, victims of Camp Lejeune have been unable to sue the government for this exposure due to North Carolina law.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The UK government has so far failed to realise its oft-repeated ambition to deliver a 'green Brexit', with protections in a host of key areas the same or even weaker than they were under the auspices of the European Union, a major coalition of British environmental groups has concluded. In short, it means a green Brexit.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

The government has been accused of breaking its promise to maintain or improve environmental standards post-Brexit after failing to match a new EU ban on the export of plastic waste to emerging economies. This was supposed to be a green Brexit, but the actions of the government thus far suggest otherwise.

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