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Environmental law update for England, Wales and Scotland: sludge regulation JR, EIR course of completion, POCA cotton imports ruling, Scottish cup charge consultation, Defra catchment permitting, and new trackers

Published on: 29 August 2024

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  • Environmental disputes and proceedings
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  • Waste producer responsibility regimes
  • Water
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Environmental disputes and proceedings

R (on the application of Fighting Dirty Limited) v Environment Agency

The Administrative Court rejected the claimant company’s (FDL) bid for judicial review concerning how sludge is environmentally regulated when spread on farmland. The claimant was a private company limited by guarantee with no share capital (that is, not-for-profit), founded by its three directors as a campaign group dedicated to finding and contesting legal and policy routes that enable pollution to reach the natural environment. Across all three versions, the sludge strategy set out a regulatory shift, regarded by the Agency as appropriate. That shift would transfer oversight of sludge used on agricultural land from the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989, SI 1989/1263, to revised arrangements under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016, SI 2016/1154...

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