• Comment: data, data everywhere

• Transport threat to UK carbon budget
• More evidence on phthalates impact on infants
• Environmental enforcement review

Corporate

• Firms grasp carbon costs

  Companies are facing up to the financial risks of climate change, but action is still a rarity, a major survey shows

• Builders go green

  Housebuilders have made “substantial improvements” in sustainability over the last year

• Jewellery sector gets 'responsible'
• Emissions 'bigger challenge than China'
• Legal 500 ranks environmental practices

Energy & carbon

• Climate concern over soil carbon loss
• WWF predicts climate crisis for UK seas
• Carbon offsets shift away from forestry
• MPs attack renewables obligation
• China and EU to develop zero-emission coal
• Environmental industries lobby on biofuels

Pollution & clean-up

• Top polluters outed

  The Environment Agency’s latest pollution inventory reveals industry emissions data - but analysis is difficult

• Survey reveals land remediation challenge

• Chicken factory odour saga under IPPC
• Comeback for soil clean-up entrepreneurs
• Formal caution for Cemex

Supply chain

• EMSs help councils green procurement

• Eco-label for Sharp TVs

• Greening Government report 'too rosy'
• DEFRA slammed over timber procurement
• Consumers bypass most efficient fridges
• REACH pilot study for downstream users

Waste & resources

• Viridor site caught accepting hazwaste
• Newspapers hit recycling target two years early
• Race is on to meet ELV target
• Household waste recycling rate nears 25% target
• NAO to study of landfill diversion targets
• WRG in waste partnership

• Selling climate change

  Can Britain’s leading NGOs mobilise millions to 'stop climate chaos'?

• Ford’s chemical conundrum

  Ford is getting to grips with over 10,000 chemicals in preparation for REACH - but says the regime still needs change

• Landfill OPRA league table

  WRG and Sita are among the worst-performing landfill operators, according to Environment Agency data

• The automotive materials database

National

• BAT guidance for refineries

• Packaging targets reduced

• Scots go it alone on ROCs

• Abstraction licensing plans

• Building regulations
• Scottish Executive report on plastic bag tax
• Opposition to PFOS phase-out proposals
• EIA regulations for agriculture
• DEFRA fills in details on Marine Bill
• Regulations for tonnage-based waste delivery
• Guidance on land contamination
• Northern Ireland hazardous waste regulations
• Regulations issued under Water Act

International

• UK puts forward REACH compromise text
• REACH technical guidance starts to emerge
• Commission reports on infringement proceedings
• Agreement on ROHS
• Mining waste Directive clears European Parliament
• Climate change and agriculture talks

• Development plans and protecting national parks
• Jail for £1 million landfill tax fraudsters
• SecondSite recovers damages for waste dumping
• £1 million damages for poor advice
• Rhodia 'devastating' acid leak costs £50,000
• Dumping fine sets Northern Ireland record
• Computer game giant fined for sewage offence
• Air freshener firm prosecuted for blue flush
• United Utilities fined for 'turning off' a brook
• Balfour Beatty fined for polluting river
• Fish kills cost Severn Trent