Book industry workers tell Baillie Gifford to drop fossil fuels
Campaign group Fossil Free Books wants literary festivals to use their "unique relationship" with Baillie Gifford to encourage it to divest from fossil fuels.
‘Repeat climate offenders’: CO2 emissions surge at Ineos and SSE sites
Two oil and gas sites which already pump out more climate pollution than anywhere else in Scotland saw their emissions increase further in 2022.
Scottish Government funding for environment agency slashed
The body tasked with protecting Scotland’s environment (Sepa) has had its funding slashed by more than a quarter in real terms since 2010.
Sepa quietly scrapped 1,000 information requests
Nearly 1,000 unanswered information requests have been binned by the Scottish Government’s environmental watchdog (Sepa) without requesters being told.
Environmental regulator accused of law breaking over pollution
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has been accused of breaking the law by failing to maintain a public register of over 175,000 pollution permits.
Watchdog investigates Sepa ‘failure’ to stop sewage pollution
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is under scrutiny by a new government standards watchdog for allegedly failing to stop sewage pollution.
Is environmental regulation in Scotland failing?
Our new series 'Is environmental regulation in Scotland failing?' will look at the performance of the body tasked with protecting Scotland's environment, Sepa.
‘Disgusting’: half of Scotland’s most popular beaches plagued by sewage
More than half of Scotland’s most popular beaches for wild swimming have been polluted with unsafe levels of sewage this summer.
Over 100 security incidents at MoD nuclear weapons body
The Defence Nuclear Organisation, which oversees the nuclear weapons programme, refused to release details of any of the incidents, prompting claims of a "cover up".
