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Trustees of occupational pension schemes now have a statutory duty to ensure that they have an adequate knowledge and understanding of the legal issues relevant to their scheme.

In Jackson v Computershare Investor Services PLC the Court of Appeal has confirmed that TUPE and the Acquired Rights provisions aim at preventing the employee in an undertaking from being prejudiced as a result of the transfer.

The Health and Safety Executive has recently targeted the waste and recycling industry due to an increased number of fatal and serious accidents that have occurred during collection and management of municipal waste (especially in recycling activities).

The Health and Safety Executive has produced ‘Best Practice’ guidance on Health and Safety for the Waste Industry in consultation with the Waste Industry Safety and Health Forum (WISH).

Last week the Environment Agency issued a number of new CRC documents, including a User Guide and Short Guidance Notes.

The Government has published a new consultation paper titled ‘Our Energy Challenge: Securing clean, affordable energy for the long term’. The consultation has a broad scope and in general will consider progress towards the goals set out in the 2003 Energy White Paper, ‘Our energy future – creating a low carbon economy’ and matters that were left open at the time.

The environment calendar highlights key dates for proposed and existing legislation and policy and closing dates for consultation papers relating to major environment issues in the EU and England.

The latest environment law bulletin summarises some of the recent developments in environment laws and policy of the United Kingdom and the European Union under appropriate headings.

The European Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety convened on 19 September 2012 to consider amendments to the European Commission’s proposed regulation on the safety of offshore oil and gas prospection, exploration and production activities.

Following issues with the analytical method on which the national allocation plan was based, the Government recently decided to terminate the UK Oil in Produced Water Trading Scheme.

The Renewables Obligation Order 2006 will replace the Renewables Obligation Order 2005 with effect from 1 April 2006.

On 20 August 2009 the Scottish Government launched a consultation on a “Zero Waste” plan for Scotland.

It seems a week cannot go by without some mention in the press of recent developments in shale gas, either in the U.S. or closer to home.

Electricity consumers are expected to bear much of the cost of the reduction of the UK’s CO2 emissions in Phase 2 (2008-2012) of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). The UK Environment Secretary, David Miliband, announced on 29 June 2006 the cap on the annual carbon dioxide allowances that will be set under the UK's National Allocation Plan (NAP) for Phase 2.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change ("DECC") has issued a consultation on the detailed policy design of the regulatory and commercial framework for the Data and Communications Company ("DCC").

The statutory provisions dealing with contaminated land contained in Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 need to be read in conjunction with the statutory and other guidance issued by, in the case of England, DEFRA.

On 6th April 2010 the new Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 are expected to come into force (the "EP Regulations").

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has recently released the long-awaited waste policy review and accompanying action plan.