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![In Volyn, the prosecutor's office overturned the order of the State Service of Geology and Mineral Resources and protected the reserve from destruction](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/shutterstock_2543041055-500x333.jpg)
Prosecutors filed a lawsuit against the Office and the entity in early May 2024
![How peat extraction leads to the destruction of nature: video](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/shutterstock_2357372417-500x375.jpg)
Peatlands are natural carbon storage and important biodiversity foci
![The Ministry of Environment wants to abolish separate permits and approvals for forests and subsoil: what is proposed](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/shutterstock_225638812-500x334.jpg)
Estimated business costs from state regulatory instruments, which are planned to be abolished, currently amount to about UAH 4.1 million
![Environmental Committee's plans for February-August 2025: what the deputies will work on](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/shutterstock_1950562114-500x333.jpg)
The long-suffering law on state environmental control is expected to be adopted in the second reading
![Zelenskyy signed the law “On updating the Program of the Mineral Resources Base of Ukraine”](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Volodimir-Zelenskij-500x281.webp)
The document has already been published in the newspaper "Voice of Ukraine"
![Business insists on additional work on draft law No. 12188](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/shutterstock_1460531333-500x275.jpg)
The document review period after the first reading is proposed to be increased to 3 weeks
![The most significant environmental violations from January 4 to 10. Digest](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/derevina-500x337.jpeg)
In particular, the offenders were sentenced for poaching, and the prosecutors referred two cases to the court against the employees of the State Enterprise "Lisa Ukrainy"
![Major violations in the environmental sphere for December 14-20. Digest](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/nezakonna-porubka-e1734707585278-500x250.jpg)
Among them are illegal logging and land pollution
![MPs vote to upate the program for the development of Ukraine's mineral resources base](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/pexels-piotr-arnoldes-6109673-500x332.jpg)
245 parliamentarians voted "for".
![The Ecocommittee supported the update of the Program for the Development of the Mineral Resources Base of Ukraine](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/kondyor-500x333.jpg)
One of its goals is to reduce Ukraine's dependence on the import of mineral resources and increase the country's export potential
![Environmental violations with the greatest damage for December 7-13. Digest](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/zrubani-dereva-3-500x375.jpg)
Many of these cases have already reached the court, and some of the perpetrators have managed to receive punishment
![Draft Law No. 12188 on mining waste needs to be finalized – EBA](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/shutterstock_1951657093-500x263.jpg)
When preparing the document for the second reading, the legislators ignored the amendments of deputies, specialized associations and experts