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Environment weekly highlights—26 August 2021

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Published on: 26 August 2021
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Table of contents

  • Air emissions and climate change
  • Comment—green vehicle infrastructure earmarked to test EU open-data principles
  • Scottish Government enters agreement with Green Party
  • Government publishes responses to concluded eco-friendly haulage consultations
  • ORR reports decrease in train emissions in 2020–21
  • BEIS awards 24 projects share of £4m to boost biomass production
  • Energy efficiency and buildings
  • Social housing providers able to bid on Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund
  • Energy for environmental lawyers
  • Ofgem seeks views on scoring methodology proposals for ECO4

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Article summary

This week's edition of Environment weekly highlights includes an analysis on EU’s rules regarding the infrastructure of electric and hydrogen vehicle charging stations, the Supreme Court’s ruling in a case concerning planning statutory review, and a High Court case on noise nuisance caused by military aircraft. In addition, this week, UKEF backed a green transition loan worth £430m, BEIS made available £4m for biomass production, Defra launched a consultation on adding new enforcement requirements to the Ivory Act 2018, and Ofgem launched a consultation seeking views on scoring methodology proposals for ECO4.

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