About Environment Law
Have you been instructed at short notice to advise on transactions or new environmental legislation outside your comfort zone? Are you up-to-date with the latest changes in environmental regulation – and have a sense of what’s on the horizon?
Current awareness, horizon scanning and trackers
Our curated daily news alerts, environmental law podcast and dedicated environmental law trackers, split according to topic and covering consultations and legislation, alongside our cases tracker, will save you time.
Air emissions and climate change
We show where climate change targets come from at national, European and international levels, plus we detail climate reporting and disclosure frameworks, track litigation and provide practical guidance for your business
Brexit and divergence
We detail the environmental law regimes that have been impacted by Brexit and track EU/UK/GB divergence.
Transactional support
We’ll give you transactional support guides and precedents for the environmental and health and safety (EHS) issues that environmental lawyers need to consider when supporting corporate and property deals.
Topics We Cover
Latest Environment News
A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, including a recycling company being prosecuted for three attempts to illegally export plastic...
Ofwat has published version 2.0 of its regulatory reporting requirements for new appointees, which will apply from the 2025–26 reporting year onward....
The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) has published Beta Version 0.1 of the TISFD Framework, a draft global...
Ofwat has launched a consultation on draft guidance for water companies delivering projects under the Water Industry (Specified Infrastructure...
The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has published a Whole Life Carbon (WLC) Framework to help the built environment sector reduce and manage carbon...
Latest Environment Practice Notes
What are invasive non-native species?An invasive non-native species (INNS) is any non-native animal or plant that has the ability to spread causing...
The need for environmental protectionSeptic tanks and small sewage treatment plants are wastewater systems for domestic sewage that are used when...
Introduction to UK REACH'REACH' is an abbreviated term for Regulation (EC) 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the...
A requestor, or more appropriately a complainant, may complain about the way a request for environmental information has been handled if they consider...
Industrial diseasesThe Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH), SI 2002/2677 are one of the most important health and...
Latest Environment Precedents
These Precedent sustainability definitions, produced by The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) as part of its climate change glossary, provide definitions...
Memorandum prepared by [Name of Firm]For the directors of[insert company name] (the Company)advising on annual environmental reporting1ScopeThis...
Project [insert project name]Prepared for [Insert addressee name][Insert date of report]INDEXReportA. IntroductionB. Executive summaryC. Detailed...
Memorandum prepared by [Name of Firm]For the directors of[insert company name] (the Company)advising on annual environmental reporting1ScopeThis...
These precedent green clauses are for insertion into a lease of commercial property to make provisions to encourage alterations/improvements that...
Latest Environment Q&As
Featured Environment content
Private nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher—common law liability for environmental harm
Nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher—common law liability for pollutionPrivate nuisancePrivate nuisance is an unlawful interference with a...
Public nuisance—general principles
Public nuisance—general principlesPublic nuisanceThe common law offence of public nuisance was abolished by section 78 of the Police, Crime,...
Meaning of waste—definition of waste
Meaning of waste—definition of wasteDefinition of Waste'Waste' is defined in the Waste Framework Directive, Directive 2008/98/EC (WFD) as any...
Environment Agency (EA)—powers of entry
Environment Agency (EA)—powers of entryThe Environment Agency (EA), Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have...
Commercial Property Standard Enquiries (CPSE)—environmental and health and safety considerations and additional enquiries
Commercial Property Standard Enquiries (CPSE)—environmental and health and safety enquiriesCommercial Property Standard Enquiries (CPSEs) are industry...
Highway drains and culverts
Highway drains and culvertsFor the purposes of s 100 of the Highways Act 1980, a ‘highway drain’ is defined as including a ditch, gutter, watercourse,...
Environmental insurance—when is it needed?
Environmental insurance—when is it needed?What is environmental insurance?Environmental insurance is a risk transfer solution to indemnify the insured...
Riparian ownership—rights and responsibilities
Riparian ownership—rights and responsibilitiesWhat does riparian ownership mean and who does it affect?‘If you own land or property next to a river,...
Control of asbestos—asbestos surveys
Control of asbestos—asbestos surveysLegal requirementsThere is a legal presumption that any non-domestic buildings (and the common parts of domestic...
Environmental management—environmental management systems (EMS)
Environmental management—environmental management systems (EMS)What is an environmental management system (EMS)?An environmental management system...
Water pollution—legislation
Water pollution—legislation This Practice Note looks at the key legislation in England and Wales for controlling and preventing water pollution and...
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)—snapshot
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)—snapshotTitleUnited Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)Parties168Adopted10...
Judicial review—sufficient interest (standing) in environmental matters
Judicial review—sufficient interest (standing) in environmental mattersOriginally produced in partnership with Alistair Mills of Landmark Chambers and...
Contaminated land—remediation notices (service and appeal)
Contaminated land—remediation notices (service and appeal)What is a remediation notice?A remediation notice is a formal written notice that requires...
Energy performance certificates (EPCs)—issues for commercial landlords and tenants
Energy performance certificates (EPCs)—issues for commercial landlords and tenantsThis Practice Note looks at some of the key practical issues for...
Environmental management—environmental legal registers
Environmental management—environmental legal registersWhat is a legal register?A legal register is the documented output from a process where an...
Environmental liabilities—what are clean-up liabilities?
Environmental liabilities—what are clean-up liabilities?Clean-up liabilities are legal and financial obligations to remediate pollution or...
Contaminated land—meaning of remediation
Contaminated land—meaning of remediationMeaning of remediation'Remediation' is given a relatively wide definition in the Environmental Protection Act...
Associated legal terms
Contaminated Land Regime
The contaminated land regime was introduced in 2000 to ensure contaminated sites in the UK are identified and remediated and is set out in Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and statutory instruments and guidance issued under it.
Significant contaminant linkage
A significant contaminant linkage means a contaminant linkage which gives rise to a level of risk sufficient to justify a piece of land being determined as contaminated land.
Significant pollutant linkage
A pollutant linkage which forms the basis for a determination that a piece of land is contaminated for the purposes of Part IIA EPA 1990.
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