A retired couple is pursuing the Environment Agency through the courts, seeking £4.5million in compensation for damage they claim was inflicted upon their historic riverside residence in Kent. Roger and Suzanne Brookhouse, both passionate amateur historians, have brought their case before the Upper Tribunal in London over severe damp problems at The King’s Lodging in…
Official bodies must act in real time when environmental crime happens, a committee has been told. Baroness Shas Sheehan, chairwoman of the Environment and Climate Change Committee, accused the Environment Agency, local authorities and the police of doing nothing when cases of illegal waste dumping were reported to them. Speaking as a £15m clean-up operation…
PARIS – France is “confident” that its plan to subsidise six new nuclear reactors will not be delayed by an upcoming investigation into its compatibility with the EU’s competition rules, government officials said on Wednesday. Paris plans to pump money into its national energy champion EDF toget the reactors built, and expects the European Commission…
UK government decision effectively kills plan for €1.7 billion factory in Scotland Source link
President Lula da Silva has accepted “A Manifesto from the Species of the Pantanal”, a landmark civil society call for urgent action to protect the world’s largest tropical wetland. The manifesto was presented at CMS COP15 in Campo Grande by Luciana Leite, Chief Representative of the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) in Brazil, who also met…
The head of the Environment Agency (EA) has told a House of Lords committee hearing that the system for tackling waste crime is not working. Philip Duffy, the chief executive of the EA, told the Lords’ environment committee that the justice system does not deter waste crime. “[In terms of] the severity of the penalties,…
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A police officer told a court there was a “very hostile environment” at an asylum seeker hotel protest, with missiles being thrown and people attacking officers with shields. Chief Inspector Stuart Austin, of Essex Police, said police carriers were having their windscreens hit and wing mirrors torn off during demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel in…
Berlin wants to slash fossil fuel import dependence and close climate gap Source link
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs should take advantage of wide-ranging plans for regulatory change and consider merging the Environment Agency with Natural England, watchdog MPs have said. Public Accounts Committee members said that combining the organisations’ regulatory responsibilities could result in a single organisational culture that balances protection and enhancement of nature…
