HMRC has issued a winding-up petition against one of the UK’s largest landfill operators, ENDS can exclusively reveal.

DEFRA closed the second window of its new Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) on the same day as launching it, after allocating the £233m fund within hours.

Southern Water has been fined £2.4m for sewage pollution in Kent, the latest in ongoing regulatory action against the company.

After years of Labour’s attacks on nature as a ‘blocker’, ecologists are now reporting attempts by some builders to force them to silence inconvenient findings. James Gordon hears stories from the fie...

New illegal ‘super sites’ will go on blighting the nation unless the prime minister forces a culture shift at the Environment Agency, writes lawyer Dr Anna Willetts.

DEFRA may face a third judicial review over updated measures to address pollution at a Yorkshire stream at the centre of a landmark legal ruling, ENDS can reveal.

Ministers from both DEFRA and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have been pushed to increase the UK’s preparedness for future wildfires as blazes become more likely due...

A House of Lords committee has questioned whether the maximum fixed penalty for waste crime of £5,000, introduced by the government in July, is a sufficiently large deterrent.

The Environment Agency (EA) will not issue new licences for data centres to take water from the environment if this resource is “not available”, its director of water has said, in response to concerns...

Agencies such as Natural England could have their funding withdrawn in the first 100 days of a Reform UK government, while the “crazy” number of Whitehall policy roles would be significantly reduced, ...

A leading academic has raised questions about the Veterinary Medicine Directorate’s (VMD) funding, claiming that its receipt of money from the veterinary pharmaceutical industry represents a “clear co...

ENDS' Shosha Adie talks to Drinking Water Inspectorate chief, Marcus Rink, about 'super regulator' plans, the water firms he says are not ready for a water scarce future, and the organisation's PFAS w...

More than 300 rivers in England have received a lower ecological status since the last full health check was carried out six years ago, an ENDS analysis shows, with worse outcomes for fish recorded at...

The government has published its latest version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), with new policies on wildfire risk, and limits to the circumstances where councils can seek biodiversi...

The government is preparing to decide whether to give two controversial oil and gas projects in the North Sea the go-ahead. What happens if they are approved? Ana Martins reports.

Campaigners have lodged a formal objection to a water company’s drought order application that would allow it to continue extracting water from a Hampshire chalk stream if water levels drop below a pr...

A former water company senior leader and water industry consultant has been made a parliamentary private secretary at DEFRA under prime minister Andy Burnham’s new government.

The populist right-wing party is hoping to use newly gained councils as the vanguard of a crusade against green policies – but, as James Fair writes, Reform UK administrations all across England are f...

Andy Burnham’s arrival at Number 10 was swiftly followed by a cabinet reshuffle, with new secretaries of state arriving at Whitehall departments. But what goes on behind the scenes when ministries cha...

Andy Burnham’s arrival at Number 10 was swiftly followed by a cabinet reshuffle, with new secretaries of state arriving at Whitehall departments. But what goes on behind the scenes when ministries cha...

Emma Hardy is to remain as a minister at DEFRA, while Katie White and Michael Shanks are to remain as ministers at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), it has been confirmed.

New prime minister Andy Burnham has announced his new top team. Big beasts – including Rachel Reeves, David Lammy and Steve Reed have left the government – and new secretaries of state have been appoi...

Wildlife regulator Natural England has announced that it will appeal a High Court ruling that it acted beyond its powers in a case concerning gamebird release licensing, warning that the judgment thre...

A Tory peer who has served as housing minister and was former prime minister Theresa May’s chief staff has had the Conservative party whip removed, with the former MP blaming the move on a recent twee...

A cross-industry group led by the trade association for the UK offshore energy industry has written to Labour MPs urging them to back increased oil and gas production in the North Sea, following repor...

The nature minister has refused to confirm that there is an “unabridged” version of a major cross-government report into biodiversity and security, despite it being widely believed that such a documen...

Academics at the University of Exeter’s Environment and Sustainability Institute have been placed under threat of redundancy, with the university proposing to scrap its geography degree course, it has...

Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has said that road and energy projects that are not “immediately vital” will be scrapped to fund a £15bn defence boost.

Any further weakening of the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate would “severely undermine” prospects of achieving the UK’s 2030 nationally determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, the...