29 Mar 2022
ClientEarth is mounting legal action against the EU for failing to live up to its commitment to tackle overfishing. As the Guardian reported, the environmental organisation filed a request for the Council of the European Union on 25 March. It calls on the council to review the fishing limits of all 27 member countries set for December 2021 in the north-east […]
29 Mar 2022
A major tidal project off Anglesey will benefit from £31m of funding in what is likely to be the last large grant from the EU’s regional funding programme. The news has been reported in the BBC and NationCymru. Wales’ Climate Change Minister Julie James confirmed the funding would be given to Menter Môn for the […]
29 Mar 2022
Holland & Barrett becomes the first major UK retailer to ban chemical sunscreen There’s been a lot of talk over the last few years on the effects of sunscreen on our oceans, reports Women’s Health magazine. A 2008 European study found that approximately 14,000 tons of sunscreen end up in our oceans every year, while a 2015 study in […]
23 Mar 2022
Defra has launched a targets consultation and new Nature Recovery Green Paper and there has been extensive coverage of the announcement. Some reports criticised the developments and Defra has responded to some of these. The Nature Recovery Green Paper sets out the ambition to enable nature’s recovery in England, laying out proposals to support the […]
23 Mar 2022
Tiny particles that rub off of tyres are likely harming freshwater and coastal estuary ecosystems. The first study, published in Chemosphere last month, found that exposure to tyre particles had harmful effects on organisms from coastal estuaries, while the second, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, found the same for freshwater organisms. Both studies grow out of […]
23 Mar 2022
On 17 March we covered a report by the Senedd’s Climate Change Committee which was calling on the Welsh Government to take urgent action to tackle sewage discharges made by water companies into Welsh rivers. There was a report of over 105,000 incidents of untreated sewage being dumped into Welsh rivers. Further information on this […]
23 Mar 2022
It was World Water Day on 22nd March, with a special focus on Groundwater. Most of Europe’s drinking water and a significant proportion of water used in irrigation come from groundwater. A European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing, published on World Water Day, provides a European overview of this key resource that is under increasing pressure […]
23 Mar 2022
Water companies in England have published a landmark report which sets out how they plan to significantly reduce leakage by 2050. Highlights include: It outlines how water companies will triple leakage reduction by 2030 and halve leakage by 2050 Leakage across the network at lowest levels since records began following significant investment and innovation by […]
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