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 Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has published guidance documents on the use of marine plans in decision making, including marine licensing...
The International Regulatory Strategy Group (IRSG) has submitted its response to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)'s consultation on aligning...
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has published the summary of responses and its response to the joint consultation with...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero have updated the consultation...
A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement actions, including an illegal waste site in Lincolnshire and unlawful exports of contaminated...
Latest Environment Practice Notes
As a result of the 23 June 2016 UK referendum on membership of the EU, which voted with a 52% majority voting in favour of the UK leaving the EU,...
This Practice Note looks at riparian ownership of non-tidal waterways, dealing with the fishing rights which may attach to such ownership and provides...
Scope of Practice NoteThis Practice Note summarises, in tabular form, cases and decisions (in England and Wales) of interest which are relevant in the...
What does the EU Taxonomy Regulation do?The EU Taxonomy Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2020/852) was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 22...
What is biodiversity?Biodiversity is the variety of all life on Earth. This encompasses everything from bacteria through to the 1.7 million identified...
Latest Environment Precedents
ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of template PowerPoint slides that can be used as...
This clause outlines provisions for standard non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements (NDAs) to ensure climate change and environmental issues are...
1: Opening statement from senior management[Name of organisation] is committed to preventing acts of modern slavery and human trafficking from...
Supply: Renewable Energy Requirements (Viola’s Clause) (The Chancery Lane Project)This Precedent clause is for a supply agreement requiring the...
[Insert organisation name] is a signatory to [insert details of any environmental initiatives to which the organisation is a signatory, eg the United...
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.
Knowingly permit pollution
Legal test for establishing liability for pollution.
Natural Resources Body for Wales
The Natural Resources Body for Wales is the environmental regulator for Wales. It was established as a statutory body by the Natural Resources Body for Wales (Establishment) Order 2012, SI 2012/1903 and became operational on 1 April 2013.
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