ENDS Report Issue 264, January 1997
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Bulletin
- Labour moves to assuage critics of its environmental policy
- Regulators at odds over Sellafield discharges
- Firms rush to ISO14001 - but Magnox drops out
- Sustainable development advisors take Government to task
- Coal lobby fights back against emission constraints
- Dioxin hotspot found near Huddersfield incinerator
- Greenhouse emissions neglected by semiconductor industry
- Greenhouse emissions shock from agriculture
- Revised inventory of UK ammonia emissions
- Recommendations for reducing water industry methane emissions
- Tyne fish suffer sex-change effects
- Finnish study kindles male fertility fears
- Water companies increase moves to sewage disinfection
- Energy efficiency campaign avoids clash with eco-label
Waste management
Policy
Parliament
- Whitehall go-slow on energy efficiency
- Government's qualified welcome for traffic reduction Bill
- Home energy rating Bill survives opposition
- Marine pollution Bill through Lords
- Worries over drinking water as water competition gets go-ahead
UK policy
- Packaging rules give firms more time to meet recovery obligations
- RCEP gets soil strategy, review of waste spreading on land
- Agency drafts first standard to control oestrogenic discharges
- Doubts over duty incentive for low-particulate lorries
- Environmental regulators face squeeze on charges
- LAAPC guides for petrol processes
- Draft guidance on air quality action plans
EU policy
- EC move on acidification leaves UK strategy adrift
- Commission finalises guidelines on environmental agreements
- Bjerregaard gets green light for White Paper on liability
- Brussels proposes deregulation, harmonised assessment for GMOs
- EC marketing consent fails to still controversy over Ciba maize
- Third priority listof chemicals for risk assessment
Bulletin
Comment
Features
In Court
- Injunctions and statutory nuisances
- European Court extends scope of environmental assessment rules
- Biggest LAAPC fine yet for animal renderer
- Second waste fire leads to £15,000 fine for ReChem
- "Impatience and gross neglect" cost demolition firm £25,000
- UK Waste gets second conviction, but Safety Kleen escapes
- Water companies' sewage errors
