The Government "must act urgently and decisively to catch up if it is to meet its legal obligations" under the Environment Act 2021, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has warned.

Environment Secretary Steve Reed has appealed against a judicial review decision reached last year when Pickering Fishery Association successfully argued that the Environment Agency had failed in its legal duties to protect a former trout stream damaged by sewage pollution and runoff from fish farms.

Bristol City Council has been forced to rethink a plan to buy energy from community groups after advice that this might fall foul of public procurement rules.

The Government has relaunched the Net Zero Council, which will have representation from local government and civil society for the first time.

National park authorities are to be handed a general power of competence, “which will clarify their legal framework, removing restrictions which prevent an entrepreneurial approach, and cut through bureaucracy to remove barriers to achieving more for people and nature”, the Government has announced.

The High Court has agreed to hear a judicial review challenge of Havering Council's decision not to allocate an illegal landfill behind pollution issues and wildfires as 'contaminated land'.

A landfill site that is the subject of a legal challenge from Newcastle Under Lyme Council for emitting odorous gasses has been hit with a closure order from the Environment Agency.

Regulator the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has been granted permission by the Court of Appeal to intervene in a case which could clarify how Government departments should consider environmental issues in policy making.

Law firm Leigh Day has said the High Court will hear a judicial review brought by objectors to the redevelopment of the former Bristol Zoo site.

The Supreme Court has granted permission to appeal over whether the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 ("the Habitats Regulations"), properly interpreted, required an "appropriate assessment" before a local planning authority decided whether to discharge conditions on the approval of reserved matters, having previously granted outline planning permission, without such an…

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council has appointed Jeremy Phillips KC and Horatio Waller, both of Francis Taylor Building Chambers, for its legal action against the operators of an odorous landfill site.

The High Court has rejected a judicial review challenge of the Government's plan to adapt to the impacts of climate change, known as the Third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3).

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) is seeking permission to intervene in a Court of Appeal case relating to housing energy efficiency standards, which the watchdog said would set a precedent concerning how the government takes account of environmental issues in its policies.

Economist Dan Corry has been appointed to carry out an internal review into the regulation and regulators at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra).

The Supreme Court has allowed a woman’s appeal against the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland’s refusal of permission for judicial review against the regulator of a landfill site on the basis that there were “suitable alternative remedies”.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a practice recommendation to a water company after finding it was using too "narrow" a definition of 'environmental' to deny Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) requests.

A River Action board member has been granted permission by the High Court to challenge Shropshire Council’s approval of a large-scale poultry production unit in the River Severn catchment.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has issued a call for evidence seeking views on options to bring the UK’s policies into compliance with its obligation under the access to justice provision of the Aarhus Convention.

A council-run inquiry into a landfill at the centre of a long-running odour dispute has criticised the Environment Agency's (EA) involvement in regulating the site and concluded the landfill should be closed, capped and restored.

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) is seeking permission to intervene in a Court of Appeal case on how regulations to protect and improve water are put into practice.

A campaign group found by three local mothers has threatened Havering Council with a judicial review claim over what they say is a lack of action from the local authority in dealing with a landfill site.

A West Midlands waste operator has paid £100,000 to a local wildlife project as an Enforcement Undertaking following a fire at one of its sites.

A legal campaign group has issued proceedings against Dartmoor Commons Council in a judicial review claim that argues the council has failed to curb overgrazing by sheep, breaching its duty to protect the moor's habitat.

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has recommended that the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames council remove a mattress that had been dumped in a river in a council-run park, after the local authority argued it was “not its responsibility”.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council has been granted permission by the Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to take legal action against a landfill operator over odours emanating from the site.

The Government is to carry out a rapid review of the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) to be completed by the end of the year.

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) plans to step up its scrutiny of how well public bodies conform with laws on the environment.

The High Court has agreed to hear a judicial review challenge against the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero's decision to greenlight a carbon capture gas power station in Teesside.