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APEM and OWC target offshore wind decommissioning; Frontierra joins Inogen Alliance; WSP gives update on Arcadis bids; and more Adler & Allan acquires contaminated land specialist Vertase Adler & Allan has acquired Vertase, a UK contaminated land remediation and enabling works contractor. Owned by FLI Group since 2005, Vertase works nationwide on brownfield and contaminated land projects for industrial, commercial and residential developers, utilities, manufacturers, and more.

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Procurement rules drop environmental criteria; ministers reject planning role for water companies; London launches ten-year river plan; and more Government publishes new NPPF for England The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published a rewritten National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), alongside its response to the consultation that ran from December 2025 to March this year.

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Summary UK study calls for more treatment capacity for persistent organic pollutants (POPs); Researchers at Cranfield University are engineering microbes, capable of breaking down PFAS in soil; and Colorado School of Mines PFAS@Mines initiative calls for collaboration to commercialise new remediation techniques. PFAS and emerging contaminants are among the most significant liabilities facing landowners, asset managers and utilities.

SLR buys Hydrobiology; private equity investor acquires 900-staff US remediation contractor; Spanish power engineer SATEL joins Arcadis; and more Arcadis rejects second WSP proposal Arcadis has unanimously rejected a second proposal from WSP to acquire its entire issued and outstanding ordinary share capital, the company said on 30 July. The proposal offered €51.50 per ordinary share, in a mix of cash and WSP stock.

EU opens €30bn AI gigafactories tender; France wins approval for €63bn offshore wind aid; US sustainable fund flows turn positive New York pauses state permits for large data centres New York has become the first US state to impose a statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centres. An executive order, signed in July, directs the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to pause all discretionary permit applications for their construction or expansion not already complete.

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Water UK says supply exists for only 420,000 of 1.5m pledged homes; Defra annual report elevates the water sector; Ofwat competition targets customer-side leakage; government reopens land remediation relief Data centre growth plans lack the water to support them, Water UK tells MPs Water UK, the trade body for the UK's water companies, has told the Environmental Audit Committee that government ambitions to triple data centre capacity by 2030 are at risk, due to lack of water.