About Environment Law
Have you been instructed at short notice to advise on transactions or new environmental legislation outside your comfort zone? Are you up-to-date with the latest changes in environmental regulation – and have a sense of what’s on the horizon?
Current awareness, horizon scanning and trackers
Our curated daily news alerts, environmental law podcast and dedicated environmental law trackers, split according to topic and covering consultations and legislation, alongside our cases tracker, will save you time.
Air emissions and climate change
We show where climate change targets come from at national, European and international levels, plus we detail climate reporting and disclosure frameworks, track litigation and provide practical guidance for your business
Brexit and divergence
We detail the environmental law regimes that have been impacted by Brexit and track EU/UK/GB divergence.
Transactional support
We’ll give you transactional support guides and precedents for the environmental and health and safety (EHS) issues that environmental lawyers need to consider when supporting corporate and property deals.
Topics We Cover
Latest Environment News
The Independent Water Commission (IWC) has launched a call for evidence, seeking stakeholder views on potential reforms to the water sector in England...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), together with the devolved administrations of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales,...
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has published a report, assessing the government's implementation of the duty to have regard to the...
The Environment Agency (EA) has published the terms of reference for its commissioned independent review ‘Floodproof: an action plan to build...
This edition of the Sustainable finance and ESG monthly round-up from the Finance Group includes: (1) ICMA outlines recommendations for simplifying EU...
Latest Environment Practice Notes
General principles of insurance contract lawWhat is insurance law?Insurance law can be split into three parts:•insurance contract law which governs...
Low carbon hydrogen projects—UK revenue and funding supportThis Practice Note provides an overview of the key revenue support mechanisms under...
The EU Taxonomy Regulation—essentialsThis Practice Note analyses the scope and impact of the EU Taxonomy Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2020/852), and...
Protected hedges and hedgerowsWhat hedgerows are protected?Certain hedgerows are protected by the Hedgerows Regulations 1997 (HR 1997), SI 1997/1160,...
Brexit legislation trackerThis Practice Note tracks the progress of UK legislation introduced as part of the legislative project associated with the...
Latest Environment Precedents
The green supplier contract—a standardised contractual pricing model clause (The Chancery Lane Project)1DefinitionsIn this Schedule unless the context...
Green supplier agreement terms clause (The Chancery Lane Project)Additional definitionsCarbon Footprint Standards•means, for Organisational Carbon...
Environmental policy[Insert organisation name] is a signatory to [insert details of any environmental initiatives to which the organisation is a...
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) due diligence questionnaire (DDQ)—share purchaseEnvironment Health and SafetyPlease provide the following:1Copies...
Environment Health and Safety due diligence questionnaire (DDQ)—asset purchaseEnvironment Health & SafetyPlease provide the following:1Copies of all...
Latest Environment Q&As
Featured Environment content
Nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher—common law liability for pollution
Nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher—common law liability for pollutionPrivate nuisancePrivate nuisance is an unlawful interference with a...
Commercial Property Standard Enquiries (CPSE)—environmental and health and safety enquiries
Commercial Property Standard Enquiries (CPSE)—environmental and health and safety enquiriesCommercial Property Standard Enquiries (CPSEs) are industry...
Sewers and drains—sewerage undertakers’ core duties and powers
Sewers and drains—sewerage undertakers’ core duties and powersA sewerage undertaker is the company appointed by the Secretary of State or Ofwat to be...
BREEAM key requirements
BREEAM key requirementsWhat is BREEAM?The Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM) is a method for evaluating...
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)—snapshot
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)—snapshotTitleUnited Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)Parties168Adopted10...
Contaminated land—meaning of remediation
Contaminated land—meaning of remediationMeaning of remediation'Remediation' is given a relatively wide definition in the Environmental Protection Act...
Control of asbestos—asbestos surveys
Control of asbestos—asbestos surveysLegal requirementsThere is a legal presumption that any non-domestic buildings (and the common parts of domestic...
Sustainable procurement—private sector
Sustainable procurement—private sectorWhat is sustainable procurement?According to the UN Global Marketplace definition: procurement is sustainable...
Lease transactions toolkit (environmental issues)—Commercial Property Standard Enquiries and additional environmental enquiries
Lease transactions toolkit (environmental issues)—Commercial Property Standard Enquiries and additional environmental enquiriesCommercial Property...
Control of asbestos—duty to manage
Control of asbestos—duty to manageThe Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR 2012) place various duties on employers to protect employees from...
Riparian ownership—rights and responsibilities
Riparian ownership—rights and responsibilitiesWhat does riparian ownership mean and who does it affect?‘If you own land or property next to a river,...
Highway drains and culverts
Highway drains and culvertsFor the purposes of s 100 of the Highways Act 1980, a ‘highway drain’ is defined as including a ditch, gutter, watercourse,...
Environment Agency (EA)—powers of entry
Environment Agency (EA)—powers of entryThe Environment Agency (EA), Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have...
Environmental management—environmental management systems (EMS)
Environmental management—environmental management systems (EMS)What is an environmental management system (EMS)?An environmental management system...
Transporting dangerous goods
Transporting dangerous goodsBrexit11 pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period entered into following...
Waste types and control—asbestos waste
Waste types and control—asbestos wasteIdentifying asbestos wasteAsbestos exists in a number of forms—the three most common are chrysotile (white),...
Harbour authorities—duties and powers
Harbour authorities—duties and powersDuties and powersHarbour authoritiesA harbour authority is an independent self-governing body that is responsible...
Energy Company Obligation (ECO)—key features of ECO1 and ECO2 [Archived]
Energy Company Obligation (ECO)—key features of ECO1 and ECO2 [Archived]Energy Company Obligation (ECO) replaces Carbon Emissions Reduction Target...
Associated legal terms
Climate change levy
The climate change levy (CCL) is a mandatory tax on UK business energy use, charged at the time of supply, known as taxable supplies. It is administered by HMRC but collected by energy suppliers via energy bills.
Controlled waste
Defined in Part II of the Environmental Protection Act (s 75(4)) to mean household, industrial and commercial waste or any such waste.
Integrated pollution prevention and control
The European regulatory system (EU directive 2008/1/EC) that requires member states to take appropriate measures to prevent environmental impacts from emissions and to regulate certain industrial activities. The term is also used within the UK Environmental Permitting regime to refer to regulation of the larger Part A1 installations by the Environment Agency.
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