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Climate and the Environment
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Ministers accused of ‘skullduggery’ that could harm wildlife sites
Scottish ministers have been accused of rewriting the rules and weakening legal protection for precious wildlife sites to pave the
Scottish Parliament to review ethics of pension investments
Holyrood’s £82 million pension fund is to be reviewed after campaigners questioned whether some of its investments were ethical.
Named: the city streets badly polluted by traffic fumes
Busy streets in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee are being polluted by exhaust fumes in breach of legal safety limits introduced
Thousands of Glaswegians let off with £1.5m in litter fines
Nearly 19,000 litter louts caught in Glasgow have been let off paying £1.5million worth of fines, The Ferret
Supermarkets and drinks companies try to block recycling plan
Supermarkets and drinks companies have been attempting to block a recycling scheme planned by the Scottish Government, prompting campaigners to
Caught on film: geese being shot and injured on Islay
Film clips of geese being shot on the island of Islay have prompted renewed allegations that many are left to
More cracks found in Hunterston nuclear power reactors
Pressure is mounting to keep two nuclear power reactors at Hunterston in North Ayrshire closed after the company that runs
Named: the ‘dirty dozen’ companies that pollute Scotland
Scotland’s most polluting companies have been named and shamed in a new database compiled by the government’s Scottish
Revealed: UK’s secret plan to dump 22 nuclear submarines in Scotland
The UK government secretly planned to dump the radioactive hulks of 22 nuclear submarines in the sea off north west
Bats facing death due to railway bridge repairs
Hundreds of bats could have been condemned to lingering deaths cemented into railway bridges by repairs that breached official guidelines.
Revealed: how Scottish airports lobbied for £300m tax cut
Scottish airports have pushed for a £300 million tax cut in at least 14 meetings with ministers and MSPs over
Anger over licences to kill 4,000 ravens
Revelations that farmers and landowners in Scotland have been licensed to kill more than 4,000 ravens in the last