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Land owners in Austria have no legal recourse to stop the activity of a nuclear plant across the border in the Czech Republic.... read more

The UK has been hauled before the European courts for failing to fully implement laws controlling emissions from air conditioning units in cars and other vehicles.... read more

Once again Edie News and Semple Fraser team up to bring readers the latest on legal cases which impact on environmental industries in the UK and Europe.... read more

The ECJ has thrown out a complaint lodged by the European Commission that Germany failed to fulfil its duties under the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive 85/337/EEC (as amended) by authorising the construction and operation of a wood gas firing heat and power plant planning to burn haz... read more

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld a complaint lodged by the European Commission that the UK failed to implement, within the prescribed period, EU laws arising from the Aarhus Convention, requiring public participation in respect of environmental decision-making and access to justice in ... read more

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has found Ireland to be in breach of EU law by failing to adequately transpose the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive (85/337/EC).... read more

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has thrown out a legal challenge mounted by Buzzi Unicem SpA, an Italian producer of cement, concrete and natural aggregates, regarding a decision of the European Commission to modify Italy's national allocation plan (NAP) for the second phase of the EU emission t... read more

The European Court of Justice has rejected an application lodged by pesticides manufacturers.... read more

In a judgement which vindicated an environmental campaigner's seven-year battle to challenge the UK Government's pesticides policy, the High Court has upheld Georgina Downs' claim that the UK Government failed to comply with its obligations under the European Pesticides Directive (91/414/EEC) to pro... read more

The High Court has ruled in a case concerning the designation of a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.... read more

After winning a local authority contract for the collection, recycling and disposal of domestic waste, Biffa commissioned a German company - Maschinenfabrik Ernst Hese GMBH (MEH) to design and build the recycling plant.... read more

The Inner House of the Court of Session has reversed an earlier decision of the Outer House, concerning the ability of a commercial landlord to carry out intrusive site investigations on potentially contaminated land.... read more

Recent changes to legislation which will impact on the environmental sector come under the spotlight in this Semple Fraser and Edie News monthly round-up of new law and policy.... read more

Recent changes to legislation which will impact on the environmental sector come under the spotlight in this Semple Fraser and Edie News monthly round-up of new law and policy.... read more

Once again Edie News and Semple Fraser team up to bring readers the latest on legal cases which impact on environmental industries in the UK and Europe.... read more

Offshore operator Amoco (UK) Exploration has succeeded in its bid to have its conviction under the Oil Pollution Act 1971 quashed. ... read more

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an action challenging the grant of planning permission to build a wind farm in Emberton, Olney, Milton Keynes.... read more

Can an occupier of a property apply for a reduction in his council tax banding because traffic levels on an adjacent stretch of motorway have increased so much that the resulting noise and pollution have reduced the value of his property?... read more

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected applications lodged by a number of Polish cement producers to have a decision of the European Commission concerning Poland's National Allocation Plan (NAP), for the allocation of greenhouse gas emission allowances for 2008-2012, annulled.... read more

Following the European Commission having filed an action in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) claiming that Ireland had infringed the urban waste water treatment Directive by failing to ensure that waste water emanating from the towns of Bray, Howth, Letterkenny, Shanganagh, Sligo and Tramore, Cou... read more

The European Court of Justice has upheld a complaint lodged by the European Commission that Italy failed to implement the European Directive 2000/59/EC on port reception facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues by failing to draw up and adopt, in respect of each Italian port, the neces... read more

Following on from the earlier opinion of the Advocate General, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has provided the Supreme Court in Sweden with a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of various provisions of the Waste Incineration Directive (WID).... read more

Once again Edie News and Semple Fraser team up to bring readers the latest on legal cases which impact on environmental industries in the UK and Europe.... read more

Recent changes to legislation which will impact on the environmental sector come under the spotlight in this Semple Fraser and Edie News monthly round-up of new law and policy.... read more

The High Court has thrown out an action challenging the grant of planning permission to build a wind farm in Emberton, Olney, Milton Keynes. ... read more

The High Court has held that waste water escaping from a public sewerage system maintained by a statutory undertaking is controlled waste within the meaning of section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (EPA) and that this is subject to enforcement control by the Environment Agency (EA).... read more

Once again Edie News and Semple Fraser team up to bring readers the latest on legal cases which impact on environmental industries in the UK and Europe.... read more

Recent changes to legislation which will impact on the environmental sector come under the spotlight in this Semple Fraser and Edie News monthly round-up of new law and policy.... read more

The Finance Act 1996 requires landfill site operators to pay landfill tax for the disposal of material as waste by way of landfill at a landfill site.... read more

Once again Edie News and Semple Fraser team up to bring readers the latest on legal cases which impact on environmental industries in the UK and Europe. In a busy month for the European Court of Justice, the German courts have asked for an interpretation of air quality legislation, a Slovakian steel... read more