ENDS Report Issue 368, September 2005
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News
- Transport threat to UK carbon budget
- More evidence on phthalates impact on infants
- Environmental enforcement review
Corporate
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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
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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
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Top polluters outed
The Environment Agency’s latest pollution inventory reveals industry emissions data - but analysis is difficult
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Survey reveals land remediation challenge
- Chicken factory odour saga under IPPC
- Comeback for soil clean-up entrepreneurs
- Formal caution for Cemex
Supply chain
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EMSs help councils green procurement
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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
Features
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Selling climate change
Can Britain’s leading NGOs mobilise millions to 'stop climate chaos'?
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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
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Landfill OPRA league table
WRG and Sita are among the worst-performing landfill operators, according to Environment Agency data
- The automotive materials database
Policy Briefing
National
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BAT guidance for refineries
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Packaging targets reduced
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Scots go it alone on ROCs
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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
In Court
- 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




