Environment weekly highlights—8 August 2019

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This week's edition of Environment weekly highlights includes analysis from Eleanor Martin, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright on the 29 licences that have so far been granted worldwide to explore the ocean floor and assess prospects for deep sea mining (DSM) and the number of environmental challenges that must be solved before any mining operation can commence, and the publication of the ‘Exercise Shen’ Report which looks at the UK National Contingency Plan (NCP) for marine pollution from shipping and offshore installations. Also this week, the Progressive Policy Think Tank has released the report 'This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown’, which discusses the subject of environmental breakdown, the Environment Agency has released guidance on groundwater source protection zone (SPZs), defining SPZs, the different types of zones and when you should check if you’re in an SPZ as well as a letter from Emma Howard Boyd, chair of the Environment Agency, to The Times, written in response to the editorial titled ‘Filthy...