From our bottled water, toothbrush and comb to our car and cellphone, it’s hard to get through the day without touching and using plastic products. Unfortunately, while this lightweight, durable material made from petroleum and natural gas is a boon for our economy, it is also an environmental threat. InContinue Reading
Background to the UK’s environment targets In December 2022, the UK government published its first set of legally binding environment targets under the Environment Act 2021 (EA 2021) with an aim to protect the environment, clean up air and water and boost nature (see: LNB News 19/12/2022 10). The publicationContinue Reading
EPA and environmental groups are targeting a company for allegedly releasing “forever chemicals” into tens of millions of plastic containers that later contaminated pesticides, which the agency said poses “unreasonable” risks to workers and the environment. At the center of both an EPA complaint and an environmental group lawsuit isContinue Reading
SCOTLAND and the UK has come under fire from a key member of a UN body tasked with upholding international law over an 11-year failure to provide a public right of challenge over decisions that would damage the nation’s precious environment, landscape and wildlife. A coalition of campaign groups fromContinue Reading
A new lawsuit says many plastic containers used in the US to hold food, cleaning supplies, personal care items and other consumer products are likely to be contaminated with toxic PFAS. It is now asking federal courts to halt their production. The suit references soon-to-be-published research that found PFAS (polyfluoroalkylContinue Reading
This article is sponsored by Western Digital. If you are reading this, you already know that climate change is a global crisis. You likely also know that businesses of all sizes are accelerating strategies to mitigate their impacts and the worst effects of climate change. (Whether that trend is drivenContinue Reading
So, what are the targets and are they as ambitious as the government claims? Air quality Top of the list is air quality, and specifically one of the most harmful air pollutants to human health: PM2.5. That’s the scientific shorthand for tiny particles smaller than 2.5 micrometres in diameter. AccordingContinue Reading
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Incentivizing farmers to restore some land as habitats for nature could deliver UK climate and biodiversity targets at half the taxpayer cost of integrating nature into land managed for food production, according to a new study published today in the journal People and Nature. This researchContinue Reading
The Government is legally required to publish an Environmental Improvement Plan in January 2023 that will set out how these targets will be met Defra failed to meet a statutory deadline of 31 October to confirm targets for nature that are included under the Environment Bill, despite the Bill receivingContinue Reading
More than 5 million tonnes of coal were hewn from land at West Chevington in Northumberland in the 1980s. Lorries, cranes and bulldozers crisscrossed the vast opencast mine that had been created there, flinging clouds of coal dust into the air and brutalising the landscape to provide fuel for theContinue Reading
