Legal brief: Safeguarding secrets
Ross Fairley on how access to environmental performance data could disclose commercially sensitive information
For some years there have been moves to improve access to information revealing organisations’ environmental performance and to encourage greater public participation in the environmental sphere. AcceContinue reading this with an IEMA membership
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OEP publishes first monitoring report on 25 Year Environment Plan
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has today published its first monitoring report on the UK government’s 25 Year Environment Plan, warning that progress so far has been “slow”.
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In R. (on the application of RSPB) v Natural England, the RSPB and a nature conservation scientist appealed a Natural England decision to grant a licence to “take and disturb” hen harriers for scientific, research or educational purposes under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Thames Water Utilities Limited has been fined £4m for discharging half a million litres of sewage into Seacourt Stream and Hinksey Stream in Oxford over two days in July 2016.
In R. (on the application of Richards) v Environment Agency, the claimant applied for judicial review of the Agency’s approach to regulating hydrogen sulphide (H2S) emissions from a landfill site operated by the interested party, pursuant to an environmental permit issued by the Agency.
