• Making it easy to do the right thing

• DEFRA demands ‘credible’ EMSs

  More must be done to safeguard the quality of environmental management systems, the Government says

• DEFRA position statement
• Business uncertainty on carbon targets
• Whitehall review of the economics of climate change
• Royal Commission urges more care on pesticides
• David Pearce – economist
• SEPA 'needs to do better'

Corporate

• Record rise in ISO14001
• Insurance pushes brownfield agenda
• SMEs’ environmental awareness
• Global standard on stakeholder engagement
• Volvo's carbon-free car factory

Energy & carbon

• New energy review
• Environmental data for electricity bills
• IPCC cautious on carbon capture
• Agency struggles with new entrants to ETS
• Scotland and Wales trail on greenhouse emissions
• Concern over CO2 threat to marine life
• Green light for UK's biggest biomass plant

Pollution & clean-up

• Red faces over Scottish pollution data
• London low emission zone moves closer

Supply chain

• Supermarkets must act on palm oil to save orang-utans, says FoE
• Greenpeace applauds LG, Motorola over chemicals
• WWF timber group’s first report
• DEFRA issues green specifications for products
• EIC seeks construction project energy audits

Waste & resources

• Pollution inventory reveals top hazardous waste producers
• Industry seeks ruling on incineration residues
• Recycling incentive schemes get DEFRA funding
• Apology: HJ Banks
• Onyx snaps up Shanks’ hazwaste business
• Interest grows in kitchen waste collections
• Welsh councils need more funding

• HSBC goes carbon-neutral

  Tough questions are on the horizon for the banking group as it aims to offset its carbon emissions

• Taking the lead on SEA

  Wessex Water is finding strategic environmental assessment an invaluable tool, even if its legislative future is uncertain

• In love with recycling

  A year in, Recycle Now looks like being the first successful waste awareness campaign - in spite of local authority doubts

• Buying in carbon

National

• SEA guidance sows confusion
• Clean neighbourhoods guidance
• PFI waste rules updated
• Rules for revised recycling credits scheme
• Contaminated land determinations risk legal challenge
• Muddle over large combustion plant
• SEPA consults on charges for new water licences
• Charges for LA pollution regulation reformed
• Revised exemptions for hazwaste
• Proposals on renewables obligation
• Ruling on carbon allocation "due by start of 2006"
• DEFRA extends waste duty of care to householders
• Consultation on IPPC guidance for ferrous foundries
• New rules on detergents
• Looming clash for Irish renewables schemes
• Public participation in water abstraction EIAS
• Ofgem ponders future of power grid
• Scottish consultation on COMAH and land use

International

• ‘Toothless’ EU air quality strategy
• Environmental laws and EU better regulation drive
• Aviation and emissions trading
• Debate on REACH comes to a head
• Tories and Lib Dems consensus on climate change

• ECJ rules on criminal sanctions
• £200,000 penalties in WRG waste case
• Coors brewery fined for water pollution
• Director fined over chemical storage
• Judicial review over NI sewerage
• Poultry firm’s waste and water fines
• Cambridge University fined for radioactivity failures
• Sewer lands Premier Brands a £9,000 fine
• Waste broker fined £10,000 for deception
• Suspended sentence Given to hazardous waste dumper
• £21,000 fine for Illegal landfill operator