12 January 2012
The latest edition of our Environment and Energy Law newsletter, bringing you news and updates on a wide range of issues.
05 April 2011
The latest edition of our Environment and Energy Law Newsletter.
21 January 2011
In December 2010 DEFRA published its long awaited proposals for amendments to the Contaminated Land Regime in England and Wales under Part 2A Environmental Protection Act (CLR). The consultation has followed a series of informal discussions with over 150 stakeholders, which according to Government has revealed a widespread view within the sector that the statutory guidance which underpins the regime needed to be updated.
01 December 2010
The latest edition of our Environment and Energy Law Newsletter.
26 July 2010
This article examines the ‘green’ agenda of the new ‘blue/yellow’ coalition government, and assesses what this marriage of political ideologies might mean for the energy and environment sectors over the coming years.
14 June 2010
Waste batteries, and accumulators, environmental regulation and supply chains: the big picture.
14 June 2010
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2010 has now been published and is in force. The final publication of the Order follows several rounds of Government consultation, and now provides organisations with the certainty required to evaluate whether their particular organisation is covered by the Scheme, to what extent, and if so, what now needs to be done.
11 June 2010
2010 will see some critical challenges in the development and implementation of the REACH and CLP Regulations and the
RoHS Directive.
24 May 2010
The Industrial Emissions Directive ("IED") is due for its Second Reading in the plenary sessions of the European Parliament on 6 July 2010. Once agreed is likely to have far reaching consequences for many industries and sectors, including all those covered by the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control 'IPPC' Directive.
23 April 2010
A review of 4 key developments in regulation shake-up
01 April 2010
The Environment Agency and Natural England will have a range of new civil sanctions at their disposal from 6 April 2010. These new civil sanctions increase the options available to these regulators when determining the enforcement response to an number of existing environmental offences. Business leaders, in house legal teams, environmental managers and environmental consultants will all need to understand the new sanctioning regime and the impact that the new regime may have on their operations.
16 March 2010
Access all areas - how safe is your commercially sensitive environmental information?
15 February 2010
2010 will see some very significant milestones in the implementation of REACH and the related EU Regulation on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Chemical Substances 1272/2008 (CLP Regulation). However, formidable difficulties must be overcome before many firms can be confident that they are managing the response to this new legislation fully and effectively.
15 February 2010
2010 will see some very significant milestones in the implementation of REACH and the related EU Regulation on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Chemical Substances (CLP Regulation). However, formidable difficulties must be overcome before many firms can be confident that they are managing the response to this new legislation fully and effectively.
29 January 2010
The shift in environmental regulation over the past decade from command and control mechanisms to more innovative approaches such as market mechanisms is often lauded as a more business friendly approach, but the other side of the coin is that the implementing regulations themselves are often complex and difficult to interpret.
21 January 2010
Does the Copenhagen Accord represent a failure to agree a way forward for dealing with climate change?
21 December 2009
A look at how DEFRA is attempting to clarify the waste permitting exemption regime. This article originally appeared in The In-House Lawyer.
01 December 2009
Our latest environmental and energy law newsletter covering a range of topics including Energy, Renewables, Nuclear, Carbon, Waste, Chemicals, Legislation, Water, Litigation and Air Quality.
30 November 2009
The government is planning to overhaul the current suite of Exemption Orders under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993, revoking all existing Exemption Orders and replacing them with one conditional Exemption Order. Click on the link to read more.
17 November 2009
Time for water abstraction is drying up. The water supply infrastructure used today was designed to cope with the climatic conditions and population levels of the UK in the 1960s, and is not adequate for current or future use. The Environment Agency’s says its hands are tied under the current water abstraction licensing regime. It argues that it cannot ensure that its environmental objectives on water are met without reforming exemptions and enforcing time-limited licenses. This article looks at the current position under the Water Framework Directive and the Water Act 2003.
10 November 2009
REACH expert William Wilson breaks down the key features of the legislation, the steps that need to be taken to ensure compliance, and the implications it will have on aviation. This article first appeared in UBM Aviation’s publication Aviation and the Environment.
08 October 2009
The Government has now published its response to the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) consultation that closed in June 2009, which announces some fundamental changes to the proposed structure of the CRC scheme. This briefing note summarises the changes.
13 August 2009
The latest edition of our Environment and Energy Law newsletter. In this edition we look at: Energy and Power; Carbon, Climate Change and Sustainability; Waste and Contaminated Land; Chemicals, REACH and GHS; Environmental Legislation and Litigation and a review of case updates.