Waste criminals across England face their toughest ever crackdown, as the government and Environment Agency unveil a sweeping package of measures targeting illegal dumping.    The new Waste Crime Action Plan sets out a zero-tolerance approach, with action to prevent waste crime at its source by closing loopholes and equipping regulators with the tools they need to stop waste criminals.    Under the plans, the government will ramp up efforts to punish offenders committing waste crime. This could see them ordered to complete up…

Water is often thought of as flowing in a straight line: taken from the environment, used, and then released, with the assumption that once it disappears down a drain or back into a river, the cycle is complete. Fred Coulon In reality, water never truly leaves the system. It moves continuously through soil, ecosystems, industry,…

A rapidly expanding certification scheme run by a UK nonprofit and used by major gas companies may be understating the actual methane emissions it purports to certify, a Guardian investigation has found. BP, ExxonMobil and EQT are among the producers that have turned to London-based MiQ to demonstrate that their US-produced natural gas complies with…