By Mike Sebalu Environmentalists have challenged the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to ensure that the waste bin Express Penalty Scheme directive does not end up as one of the usual empty rhetoric but walk the talk this time. The call was made by Jamimah Kasibo, an advocacy officer at […]
By Mike Sebalu Environmentalists have asked the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to be deliberate in creating awareness about the Express Penalty Scheme (EPS) for environmental breaches if it is to yield fruits. According to the national environment body, the penalty scheme is intended to deter non-compliance to environmental laws […]
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has extended the grace period it had given to those who breach provisions of the National Environment Act, 2019 by a month. The authority had announced that it would launch the Administrative Penalty Scheme for Environmental breaches on April 1, 2023, but in a […]
By Kevin Githuku With just a day to the launch of the Administrative Penalty Scheme for Environmental breaches in Uganda, the UN Secretary-General is calling for a tough war on garbage. António Guterres was speaking at an event in the General Assembly Hall marking the first-ever International Day of Zero […]
The National Environment Management Authority has welcomed the mining and minerals bill signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni. This was one of the 4 pieces of legislation assented to by the president last week others being the Computer Misuse Amendment Act 2022, Kampala Capital City (Amendment) Act 2022, and […]
