Waste and Renewable Resources eBulletin, September 2009

   
Waste and Renewable Resources eBulletin
September 2009
In this issue:
Enivronment Agency Fines for Waste Crimes top £3m
Changes to Landfill Tax
Environment Agency Consults on Odour Management Guidance



Tel 0207 8221630

michael.krantz
@dmhstallard.com
 

Our specialist waste and renewable resources sector team, including lawyers and planning consultants, provides a complete range of services for the waste and renewable resources industry. 

In this edition, we will look at some of the issues which might affect your business including the changes to landfill tax, the revised odour management guidance consultation by the Environment Agency and the prosecution of environmental crime.

I hope you find this eBulletin useful and interesting.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions about any other information that you would like to see in the eBulletin or any other way in which we can improve it.

Yours sincerely

Michael Krantz
Partner
DMH Stallard
Tel 020 7822 1630
Michael.Krantz@dmhstallard 

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Enivronment Agency Fines for Waste Crimes top £3m
The Environment Agency (EA) announced in July that successful prosecutions for waste crimes in 2008 resulted in fines exceeding £3m. In 2004 the EA brought 455 waste prosecutions resulting in total fines of £1,424,843.00, or...
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Changes to Landfill Tax
The Landfill Tax (Amendment Regulations) 2009 came into force on 1st September. The aim of these Regulations is to restore the landfill tax position to what the Government believe it was before the Court of Appeal’s 2008 Judgement in Commissioners for...
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Environment Agency Consults on Odour Management Guidance
The Environment Agency has launched a consultation on its revised Odour Management Guidance, covering sites regulated under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007. The consultation closes on the 13th October.  The revised...
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