With a new report published last week by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee on PFAS recommending ever-tighter regulatory restrictions, a timely article from Dale Foster and Adrian Heneghan at HUBER Technology discusses how sludge drying technology has a key role to play in the water companies’ toolkit.

The government has opened the Farming Recovery Fund to support farmers who suffered uninsurable damage to their land due to flooding this winter.

The Environment Agency has launched a campaign to highlight the risks of growing high-risk crops, which can lead to pollution and flooding, in the South West of England.

The Environment Agency (EA) has launched a pre-market engagement exercise with the supply chain on a wide-ranging asset operation, maintenance, response and landscape framework worth an estimated £540 million-plus.

Plans for the scheme to replace the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy depend on changes in land use that bring both increased farm productivity and environmental benefits, but a new report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee says Defra itself concedes “its confidence in the scheme looks like blind optimism”.

The Government has today introduced new legislation intended to help farmers farm more innovatively and protect the environment.