Recycling remit
Adrian Bond on Scotland's groundbreaking new waste legislation and the role of Sepa in ensuring compliance
With less than two months until the new Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2012 take effect, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) is working with organisations to explain the changes – highlighContinue reading this with an IEMA membership
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New regulations
This legislative update has been provided by Cedrec Information Systems Ltd, available at cedrec.com. In Partnership with Barbour EHS.
In Sunbeam Fishing Ltd v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the owner and operator of a sandeel fishing vessel argued that the secretary of state’s decision was unlawful in both substance and timing, and sought to ensure the same illegalities would not affect the UK fleet’s ability to catch sandeel in 2023.
Anglian Water has been fined £2.65m after pleading guilty at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court to allowing millions of litres of untreated sewage to overflow into the North Sea.
In February, the House of Lords began a consultation on the impact of environmental regulations on development.
UK ministers have published a list of 600 EU laws that the government plans to scrap by the end of the year following Brexit, including 341 environmental laws.
Water companies could be hit with “unlimited fines” for polluting the environment under a new plan unveiled by the UK government today.
As PFAS seep into the public consciousness (and bloodstream), Chris Seekings reports on what’s being done to regulate them
