Emma Clarke reports on how companies are ensuring contractors don't land them in court
With new "polluter pays" regulations in place, the courts will be making greater use of environmental forensics. Stephen Mudge explains...
New polluter-pays legislation requires businesses to rethink their risk management processes, argues Emma Clarke.
Environmental regulation and climate change dominated discussion at the Environment Agency's annual conference in November. We report on the two-day event
For our annual look at the year ahead, we asked a panel of experts, including the environment minister, the European Union's environment commissioner and the chief executive of the Environment Agency, what they believe will be the dominant issues in 2006
Successful ISO14001 certification requires organisations to raise environmental awareness among the workforce. Yorkshire Water has developed its own training programme to ensure it achieves this aspect of the international environmental management standard. Richenda Wilson reports
The government's plans for future waste strategy in England include sending greater amounts of waste for incineration. Yet many believe that incineration is hazardous to both human health and the environment, as well as less efficient than recycling. Rick Gould examines the arguments
With only 12 months to go before the Environmental Liability Directive comes into effect, Becky Allen and Jennifer Zerk look at how UK businesses and the insurance market are coping with the uncertainties that still surround the new legislation
The project to discover whether there is a link between environmental management systems and companies' environmental performance has ended. We examine the results
The sixth Environmental Action Programme established seven Thematic Strategies to guide future environmental policy-making in Europe. Disagreements within the European Commission have stalled their progress. The IEEP's Catherine Bowyer examines developments, including the potential impact of the strategies on air quality and waste