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
The Welsh Government published the full scheme guidance for the Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) Universal Layer, with the scheme set to commence on 1...
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has published guidance on closed loop recycling under Extended Producer Responsibility...
The Welsh Government has published a summary of responses to its consultation on revisions to the Separate Collection of Waste Materials for Recycling...
The Department for Transport (DfT) has published its climate adaptation strategy for transport following a consultation that ran from 3 April 2024 to...
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has published Carbon-abated Electricity (PAS 247) establishing the first standardised methodology for...
Latest Environment Practice Notes
Absolute exemptions to a freedom of information requestIn briefA public authority need not disclose information following a request for information...
Strategic Environmental AssessmentSTOP PRESS: The Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025. This content is...
Preparing an environmental statementSTOP PRESS: The Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025. This content is...
Procedural requirements for environmental statements and decisions on EIA applicationsSTOP PRESS: The Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 received...
Environmental impact assessment: meaning of ‘significant effect’STOP PRESS: The Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 18...
Latest Environment Precedents
Pie crust lease of a unit on an estateHM Land Registry Prescribed ClausesLR1. Date of the lease[date]LR2. Title number(s)LR2.1 Landlord's title...
EHS warranties—asset purchase agreement—seller’s versionDefinitionsEnvironment•all or any of the following media:(a)air (including air within...
EHS warranties—asset purchase agreement—buyer’s versionDefinitionsEnvironment• all or any of the following media:(a)air (including air within...
Environment health and safety (EHS) warranties—share purchase agreement—seller’s versionDefinitionsEnvironment•all or any of the following...
EHS warranties—share purchase agreement—buyer’s versionDefinitionsEnvironment• all or any of the following media:(a)air (including air within...
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
Air quality management area
An area designated by a local authority as unlikely to achieve the national air quality objectives.
Exclusion tests
The series of tests within Part IIA of the EPA 1990 which can be applied by the enforcing authority to determine that one or more persons may be excluded from a liability group and therefore not be an appropriate person for the purposes of contaminated land remediation.
Liability group
The group of persons that are appropriate persons in respect of a particular significant pollutant linkage for the purposes of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, pt IIA.
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