IEMA responds to the Office for Environmental Protection consultation
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) ran a consultation earlier this year to gather stakeholders’ views and insights on its strategy and enforcement policy.
In its response, IEMA set out a range of recommendations for strengthening the OEP’s remit and long-term impact. Key among IEMA’s recommendations was that there should be a contingency in place for thContinue reading this with an IEMA membership
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Consultation launched on legally-binding environmental targets
The UK government has today launched an eight-week consultation on its plans for legally-binding environmental targets.
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The Environment Bill returned to Parliament following the Queen’s speech and is making progress through the House of Lords.
The government has announced a delay to the Environment Bill’s passage through Parliament, due to COVID-19 restrictions and a bottleneck of legislation making its way onto the statute book. It is expected that the Bill will receive significant interest in the Lords, and the pause means it will carry over into the next parliamentary session, rather than being rushed through without proper scrutiny, or risking being dropped.
The Environment Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons on 26 February and is now at Committee stage, where a cross-party group of MPs, plus the environment minister, go through the Bill line by line and consider amendments, which will be considered by parliament.
