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 Environment Agency (EA) has published new standard rules permits for small sewage discharges, SR2025 No 5, No 6 and No 7. The rules follow...
The Environment Agency (EA) has published version 2.0 of its coastal modelling standards for the flood risk management industry. The standards set out...
The European Commission has opened a consultation seeking views on draft regulation that would amend Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (EU...
The Environment Agency (EA) has published guidance on its planned refresh of the National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Strategy...
This week's edition of Environment weekly highlights includes the publication of new draft regulations increasing the fees payable in relation to...
Latest Environment Practice Notes
This Practice Note considers the exemption for personal information under section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FIA 2000).Scope of 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...
STOP PRESS: the Chemicals (Health and Safety) (Amendment, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026, SI 2026/474, revoke Chapter 2 of...
Sources of environmental liabilityThere are three main sources of potential personal liability under environmental law that IPs should be aware of....
Executive narrativeIn practice, Indonesia’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) regime is best treated as a layered compliance environment. The...
Latest Environment Precedents
Project [insert project name]Prepared for [Insert addressee name][Insert date of report]INDEXReportA. IntroductionB. Executive summaryC. Detailed...
[name] [District] [Borough] [City] CouncilABATEMENT NOTICEmade under section 80 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990To: [name] of [address]Take...
[name, address and telephone number]To: The Clerk to the Justices,[name] Magistrates’ Court[date]Notice of Appeal against an abatement notice,...
[Insert name of public authority][Insert public authority's address, including postcode][Insert public authority’s email address or email address of...
[insert address of claimant's instructing solicitor][insert date]To: [insert name of person or local authority responsible; and address][insert...
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
Directive waste
Any substance or object which the holder discards, intends to discard or is required to discard (Article 3(1) of the revised Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC) (rWFD).
Hazardous waste
Any waste which is hazardous waste for the purposes of the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005, SI 2005/894 (as amended).
Local Authority Pollution Prevention and Control
Local Authority Pollution Prevention and Control is the regime by which local authorities deal with reducing pollution and improving air quality from Part B installations, ie small industrial installations.
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