• Deregulation for LAPC?

  DEFRA is examining the possibility of removing up to 4,000 industrial processes from local authority pollution control

• EU adrift on Kyoto targets

  Europe's greenhouse gas emissions rose again in 2003, leading the EU badly off course on its Kyoto Protocol targets

• Sewage P-removal vital

  A modelling study has shown that water companies will have to strip phosphates from most sewage works to protect lowland rivers

Waste management

• Crisis in TV recycling

  The UK's only manufacturer of cathode ray tubes has stopped using recovered glass from old TVs and monitors

Parliament

• Lords say Kyoto 'will fail'

  The Kyoto Protocol's reliance on targets and penalties to reduce greenhouse emissions will fail, the Lords Economic Affairs Committee says

UK policy

• UK breaches landfill rules

  The Government has admitted that it could face infraction proceedings for breaching EU rules on landfilling hazardous waste

• DEFRA unveils new KPIs

  The Environment Department has launched guidelines to help companies to report on their environmental performance

EU policy

• REACH trial concludes

  A pilot of the EU REACH proposals involving industry and regulators has concluded that both need a change of mindset to make the legislation work

• Fears for EU environment strategy
• Survey of green spending
• Royal Society on ocean acidification
• Chemicals sector sustainability plan
• Market-for-waste scheme launched
• Waste fuel carbon neutrality
• DWI's new-look water report
• NAO on Agency and water resources
• Agency underestimates oil spill data

Waste management

• Waste plans for construction sites
• Enforcement confuses PRN market

• Food sector pressed to tackle 'food miles' impacts
• 2,000 chartered environmentalists
• Acidification trends point to shipping
• BP confirms plan for carbon capture
• AQEG delivers final verdict on particles
• Royal Mint escapes prosecution for serious pollution
• London Agency to lead the way on climate
• Aviation industry strategy slammed as 'greenwash'
• Water leakage shows slight improvement
• Enforcement action at Celsa steelworks

Waste management

• Packaging fines stay at same level in 2004
• Drinks carton industry sets 10% recycling target
• Aylesford Newsprint explores paper sludge recycling
• Construction starts on anaerobic digestion plants
• Belvedere put on hold

• Call for new consumer products body
• Lamp recycler rapped for green claim
• Debate on F-gas containment
• Prospects for greener detergents
• SEPA sticks to its guns on phosphate detergents
• Guidance for councillors on recycled products
• NGOs warn car firms on energy label
• Random House commits to FSC for book paper

Parliament

• Muddle on energy efficiency
• DEFRA bats away hazwaste criticism
• Scotland's plastic bag tax Bill
• Annual fly-tips of electrical goods exceed 70,000
• Fly-tipping prosecutions plateau

UK policy

• Climbdown on landfill regulations
• Plug pulled on composting exemption
• Scottish Water's draft price limits
• DTI consults on microgeneration
• Lorry road pricing scheme axed
• Scottish planning shake-up
• Wales implements hazwaste regime
• Northern Ireland's waste record under fire again
• Draft guidance on landfill Directive and IPPC
• Nitrate regulations in Scotland and N. Ireland updated

• Seven areas named to host Welsh wind

UK policy

• New IPPC guidance for ferrous foundries
• DEFRA revises practical guide to IPPC
• Move on sector climate targets in Scotland
• Scottish amendments to PPC regulations
• Scotland tightens rules on opencast coal mining
• Green jobs strategy for Scotland
• Amended regulations for climate change levy

EU policy

• UK's priorities for EU Presidency
• Environment Council round-up
• REACH politics heat up
• Marine thematic strategy
• Brussels moves on energy efficiency
• IPPC surface treatment guidance
• Greece completes carbon emissions allocation marathon
• UK warned on WEEE, noise, waste water

International

• G8 summit and climate change

• Bending the rules on hazardous waste

• New era for hazwaste

  An ENDS survey shows that a quarter of hazardous waste producers expect problems finding landfill capacity following the introduction of new controls

• Supply chain management

  Many leading firms now recognise that supply chain management is a long-term process of engagement

• Carbon rationing for all?`

  Rationing individuals' carbon emissions is gaining credence among environmentalists - but will the public and media buy it?

• Survey underlines industry efforts to reduce hazardous waste
• Agency bashing dominates ENDS conference
• Philips' sustainability maturity grid
• Approaches to supply chain management
• Making domestic tradable quotas work

• £140,000 onion bhaji odour fine

  A west London food firm has been fined £140,000 for ten breaches of an odour abatement noise issued by Ealing council

• Ireland's failure on EU waste law
• Environmental assessment and planning
• ConocoPhillips fined £895,000
• Pesticide approval and competition
• First ever PRN fraud prosecution
• Dry cleaner sullies river
• Mogden sewage-odour sage
• Aluminium foundry fined £10,000 for noise pollution
• Chocolate spill costs Associated British Foods subsidiary £13,000
• Fly-tipper fined £13,500
• Two more offences for Scottish Water
• Two more prosecutions for Imerys
• Farmer fined after sheep dip destroys 5,000 crayfish
• Severn Trent fined for sewer delay
• Pump failure costs potato firm £20,000
• Fish farms fined over unlicensed chemical use
• Welsh Water fined for fish kill
• Waste offences cost demolition contractor £15,000