A €68.5 million fine imposed on Poland for continuing operations in an open pit lignite mine while it was ordered to stop will not be retroactively cancelled, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

German Environment Agency president Dirk Messner talks to ENDS Europe about the need for a more thoughtful approach to streamline EU green rules, amid a perennial succession of urgent European ...

Soy beans now meet the EU’s criteria to be excluded from its renewable energy targets after a surge in their production in high-carbon areas such as forests, peatland and wetlands, the European ...

More than a dozen environment and climate-related bills – including three intended to transpose the requirements of flagship ...

The EU’s environment chief has indicated that the European Commission may not follow through on plans to swiftly revise REACH ...

A global treaty establishing a framework to protect biodiversity in international waters, which entered into international law this weekend, has been hailed as “a beacon of hope for the ocean and ...

Member states will be required to draw up “aggregated baseline” permits to streamline impact assessments for manufacturing ...

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has faced a backlash after signing the EU-Mercosur trade agreement this weekend, including two motions from MEPs requesting a court opinion on the ...

Updates to rules on detergents are set to be voted on in the European Parliament’s plenary session this week, after a deal reached at interinstitutional talks was approved by the environment committee ...

Heads of the European Parliament’s political groups will have to decide whether to give the industry committee a say in drawing up negotiating positions on a number of big green proposals, ENDS Europe ...

Peatland restoration, afforestation and agricultural soil emission reductions are set to be included in the EU’s nascent carbon credits scheme.

Competition officials from the European Commission have opened an investigation into the legality of a multi-million euro compensation award against the Bulgarian government over changes to its solar ...