Companies who pollute the environment can be hit with unlimited financial penalties from the Environment Agency from today (11 December 2023). The previous £250,000 cap on Variable Monetary Penalties (VMPs) has now been scrapped and the range of offences they cover has been expanded, meaning the Environment Agency has more tools with which to hold
Palm oil, cocoa, beef, leather and soy are to be included in new legislation aimed at helping ensure the products we buy do not harm the world’s forests. At COP28 Nature Day (9 December), the government will set out how these new laws will ensure that there is no place on our supermarket shelves for
The new riverbank wall at Little Eggleshope. Credit: Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust. The new measures include building 300m of new riverbank walls and sowing an array of grass and plant species on metal-contaminated land. This will limit metals being washed out of mine waste material and polluting Little Eggleshope and Great Eggleshope becks, both tributaries
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