Community organisation Save our Shore Leith (SOSLeith) campaigns against the impact of sewage outflows and the lack of monitoring in the Water of Leith – Jim Jarvie explains why and what needs to change …
Autumn e-bulletin
Check out our autumn e-bulletin. Read our blogs. Sign up to our online Meet ERCS event on 29 November. Our new FAQs and more …
Sewage sludge spreading – the harm and fight for improved regulation
Rural communities affected by sewage sludge spreading on agricultural land continue to wait for the Scottish Government to act on the human and environmental health risks. Read how community representatives, Doreen and Jo, have been at the forefront of public action against sewage sludge for more than a decade ...
ERCS advice service – a brief overview
We offer free advice on environmental law. Since launching in June 2021, we’ve received 127 enquiries from individuals, community groups and NGOs based all across Scotland ...
ERCS advocacy officer – looking back at the first four months in post
What have we been doing to improve Scotland's environmental laws and defend our right to a healthy environment? Our new advocacy officer reflects on four months in post ...
Reclaiming contaminated land & unaffordable, unfair access to justice
In the Murieston Valley, Livingston lies a plot of vacant contaminated land which is now a valued local greenspace. Despite significant community concerns, a planning application was approved on appeal. Find out more about their struggle and how "its the financial side that inhibits the small man from doing something" ...
Scottish Government fails to deliver for UN Action Plan deadline on environmental rights – press release
ERCS, FoES and RSPB Scotland have branded a UK and Scottish Government Action Plan to deliver on environmental rights ‘woefully inadequate’. The groups have written to the UN body to express their concern about a lack of concrete commitments to reform the legal system to help people defend the environment ...
ERCS recruiting an Assistant Legal Officer (part-time)
Are you passionate about protecting the environment, and committed to advancing environmental rights? We are recruiting an Assistant Legal Officer to increase access to justice and holding public authorities and polluters to account ...
