• Emissions horsetrading

  Industry sectors are engaged in frantic lobbying to maximise their allocations under the EU emissions trading scheme

• Missing halons

  Surprisingly few fire extinguishers containing halons have been sent for disposal, despite the new ban on these ozone depleters

• Row over nitrate pollution

  British and Dutch scientists are at loggerheads over the impact of UK nitrate discharges on coastal water quality

Waste management

• 'Clearing house' for WEEE

  Waste electrical and electronic equipment is to be transported from council waste sites to recyclers under a set of logistics contracts, according to plans by a business-led initiative

• Talking chemicals

  Retailers and chemicals manufacturers have set up a forum to address public concerns about chemicals in retail products

Parliament

• Treasury under fire

  The Treasury has been likened to an "arthritic sloth" over environmental taxation in an inquiry by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee

UK policy

• Landfill tax business funding

  Future increases in landfill tax should be recycled into targeted grants to help businesses apply waste efficiency measures, according to a report for the Treasury

• Manufacturers' sustainability strategy
• Tackling the failings of certified EMSs
• Impact of emissions trading 'overstated'
• Greens open new front against ExxonMobil
• Air quality advisors' warning on PM_2.5
• Scotland gets environmental prosecutors
• Dip in Agency enforcement action
• Councils and contaminated land
• Severn Trent leads on intake protection
• New evidence on triclosan
• Industry 'spin' on flame retardants
• Citigroup bows to shareholder pressure
• Smaller firms 'must engage' on EMSs

Waste management

• Waste treatment technology showcase

• Guidance on eco-efficiency indicators from UNCTAD
• 'Soil screening values' database launched by Atkins
• Musk fragrances may be endocrine disruptors
• DEFRA reviews dioxin, PCB progress

Waste management

• Scottish councils warned on recycling
• PPC permit for Grimsby incinerator

• Flame retardants cause WEEE headache
• WWF beefs up 95+ Group requirements
• Forest certification and sustainability
• Action urged on products policy
• New review on EU eco-labelling

Parliament

• Whitehall compromise on REACH
• Setback for environmental tribunal hopes
• MPs challenge ELVs recovery plans
• Sustainable buildings Bill

UK policy

• Shake-up for chemicals strategy
• Car makers' ELV obligations
• Scottish waste plan update
• Consultation on Scottish waste controls
• Agency to tighten PPC benchmarks
• DEFRA holds firm on foundry dust
• Guidance on steel processing
• Draft LAPC waste combustion guidance
• Radwaste consultations
• Slippage on SEA Directive
• Water framework Directive implementation

EU policy

• EU environmental technology plan
• Directive on Kyoto credits in the mix
• Slow progress on car CO₂ agreements

Parliament

• Rhodia under fire over chlorine leak
• Blair shows colours over aviation
• Biodiesel makes inroads
• Success claimed for aggregates levy
• Wind power's positive energy balance
• Scots object to English sludge imports
• First debate on environment since 2002
• Government undecided on "strategic waste authority"
• Busy period for environmental inquiries
• OECD environmental tax league

UK policy

• Review may reduce cost of carbon
• Bans on azodyes, arsenic, SCCPs
• Guide to solvent emissions rules
• Draft groundwater code for small sewerage systems
• DEFRA to draw up guidance on 'significant' pollution
• New system for funding contaminated land projects
• Freshwater fisheries Directive implementation revised
• Amendments to PPC regulations in England, Wales and Scotland

EU policy

• Agreement on liability Directive
• Proposal to limit PAHs in tyres
• COMAH Directive published
• Priority products for eco-design

• Wine, beer and pollution inventories

• New EU pollution inventory

  Data from the new European Pollutant Emission Register raise questions about the environmental performance of businesses in different Member States

• Chemicals firms and IPPC

  Three Teesside organic chemicals companies which have applied for IPPC permits talk about their experiences

• SecondSite corporate strategy

  SecondSite Property, a subsidiary of National Grid Transco, has been extracting value from polluted former gasworks and returning much needed land to the marketplace

• Tax and energy efficiency

  The effectiveness of the Carbon Trust's enhanced capital allowances scheme for energy-efficient equipment is under scrutiny

• IPPC and organic chemicals - a snapshot
• Enhanced capital allowances explained

• Wind farms and statutory nuisance
• Fridge recyclers convicted
• Detergent pollution costs Gatwick Airport
• Second transfrontier waste prosecution
• South West Water fined for brown sea
• Agency fined £150,000 after fatal accident
• £250 fine for serial waste offender
• Running illegal waste site costs man £20,000
• Hazwaste tipper gets two-month jail term
• Adhesive spill costs flooring company £5,000
• Pollution stems from poor planning at Scottish Water
• Scottish quarry firm fined for silt pollution
• Telecoms firm faces £20,000 oil spill bill
• Welsh Water fined over sewer burst
• Express Dairies creamed for brook pollution