Regulation and Legislation
Environment Agency Chief Regulator, Dr Jo Nettleton, has today called for the environmental regulation framework to be reformed in order to help better protect people and the environment and enable businesses to grow.
A farming business has been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling more than £10,000 for twice polluting a watercourse and breaching slurry regulations.
On 20 December 2024 international law firm RPC and proposed class representative Professor Carolyn Roberts took the first step in launching a new opt-out competition collective action claim by serving proposed defendants Severn Trent, Yorkshire Water, United Utilities, Thames Water, Northumbrian Water and Anglian Water with letters before action.
The Office for Environmental Protection has launched an investigation into a suspected failure by Defra to take the necessary measures to achieve or maintain Good Environmental Status (GES) of marine waters by the statutory deadline.
The Environment Agency (EA) has launched a new consultation on Environment Act 2021 civil sanctions – the EA is seeking views on a proposed update to the Agency's enforcement and sanctions policy.
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- Environment Agency reviews water companies’ revised draft regional and water resources management plans
- Southern Water to face EFRA committee following price review and water outages
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