A new national campaign to tackle sewage pollution in Scotland’s rivers and seas was launched on Saturday, supported by over 20 groups and organisations across civil society ...
Our Rights
Disability-inclusive climate emergency planning
Together with Inclusion Scotland and the Sensing Climate Project, we are working to make climate emergency planning more disability-inclusive. Read a summary of the work so far ...
Restore Nature’s legal challenge to protect Todrig from Sitka spruce plantations
Restore Nature is taking a legal challenge against Scottish Forestry to protect nature and communities around Todrig from proposed Sitka spruce plantations ...
Celebrating five years of ERCS
On 18 September, we gathered with 75 friends and colleagues to celebrate ERCS’s fifth birthday ...
You must be choking: Little appetite from the Scottish Government to combat air pollution from engine idling
We recently celebrated Clean Air Day, which highlights the environmental and public health imperative to reduce air pollution and limit harmful emissions ...
Bathing waters designation – murkier than ever?
Bathing water designation came to our attention when we were contacted by the River Almond Action Group (RAAG). In this blog, our Assistant Legal Officer Preslava Todorova analyses how, over two years after our representation to Environmental Standards Scotland, bathing water designation remains murkier than ever ...
Race & the Right to a Healthy Environment: Refugees’ and asylum seekers’ lived experiences of access to greenspaces and healthy food
In April 2025, Scottish Refugee Council invited ERCS to talk to the Peer Integration Group about their lived experiences of accessing greenspaces and healthy food. 29 refugees and asylum seekers attended the session. Read what they had to say ...
Defending Cullaloe Forest from environmental harm – Mark’s Voice for Justice
This Voices for Justice comes from Mark, who was concerned about the environmental harm of a local quarry and its storage and processing of incinerator waste, contaminating the adjacent forest. Without the commitment and tenacity of Mark, other concerned residents and local Councillors, pollution controls would not be enforced, and environmental harms would be allowed to continue unchecked ...
