• Time for an honest debate on water supplies

  Policy should encourage industry to invest in infrastructure and raise awareness of water limits.

• Sky signals step-change

  BSkyB offsets UK carbon emissions and gears up to target viewers.

• Industry demands action on climate change
• Lords report on water
• NAO report on RIAs
• Particle monitors 'inaccurate'

Corporate

• GE Ecomagination pays off

  General Electric's revenues are up with clean technology investments.

• Eco-efficiency rating for firms
• EU transparency debate
• Sustainable banking awards
• Sustainability reporting for local authorities
• Investment funds rated
• Lloyds climate warning
• ‘Eco’ motor insurance

Energy & carbon

• Councils must back microgen

  Local authorities are expected to require new developments to include micro-renewables.

• Fridges could store electricity
• EEA report on bioenergy
• Think tank reports on UK climate policy
• LibDem’s climate policies
• Scottish renewables funding
• International role for Morley
• Ineos to build biofuels plant
• Low-carbon vehicle support ends

Pollution & clean-up

• Cut backs on check monitoring

  The Environment Agency has trimmed ‘check monitoring’ of sites despite gaps in procedures.

• Scottish OPRA scores
• Study blames sewage for eutrophication
• Deca-BDE emissions initiative
• Atkins’ soil screening values
• Two enforcement notices
• Study finds Humber ‘not eutrophic’

Supply chain

• Jaguar and Land Rover help suppliers tackle risks

  A joint project is encouraging sustainable practices among automotive suppliers.

• US green computer standard
• Call for laws on product information
• Review of timber schemes

Waste & resources

• Agency admits hazwaste is being disposed of illegally

  Hazardous waste is being misclassified, inadequately treated and illegally sent to landfill.

• First ship recycling licence
• ELV recycling target missed
• Battle over waste oil
• Grundon’s treatment permit
• Shanks finds RDF buyer
• Waste export accreditation
• Premier expands MBT plant
• Belvedere incinerator move
• Waste consultancies merge

Science

• FoE presses for ban on nanomaterials in cosmetics

  Friends of the Earth is trying to stop sales of cosmetics with nanomaterials due to safety concerns.

• Fears over ‘synthetic biology’
• Phthalate guidelines too high

• Pressure mounts to speed up waste contracts

  The process for agreeing waste disposal contracts must be speeded up.

• Turning by-products into resource

  The National Industrial Symbiosis Programme is making headway on waste.

• Symbiosis in practice

  The Danish town of Kalunborg is one of the best-known examples of industrial symbiosis. From the exchange of steam from its Asnaes power plant with surplus gases from its Statoil refinery in the 1970s, it has evolved into a synergistic network.

• Improving PFI contracts
• NISP: goals

National

• OGC should oversee green procurement

  Clearer leadership and priorities are needed to make public spending more sustainable, says task force.

• Penalties review consultation
• Industry questions WEEE allocation
• Northern Ireland water proposals
• Periodic review consultation
• Radioactive contaminated land regulations
• Packaging regulation change
• Waste planning guidance
• Ozone-depleting substances regulations
• Fixed penalty regulations
• Animal by-products rules
• RoHS regulations
• London waste targets
• Home energy certificates
• EIC on LAPPC review
• Minor PPC amendments

International

• IPPC review gathers pace

  Site permits and possible technical amendments are being examined as part of the review of the IPPC Directive.

• Agenda for post-Kyoto targets
• EU pesticides review
• MEPs vote on groundwater
• N Ireland waste warning
• Energy star rules revised
• Proposals to revise EUETS

• Climate Change Bill set to become law

  Bill to address GHG emissions and boost green energy progresses.

• MPs on CO₂ from transport
• OFR decision attacked
• New climate change inquiries

• Court ruling prompts overhaul of environmental assessment rules

  Court decides that UK implementation of EU Directive is inadequate.

• Test case on land clean-up
• IPPC and sludge treatment
• Skip firm loses waste appeal
• Five water firms in court
• Yorkshire's unfit water fine
• £48,000 landfill fine
• Scottish renderer fined
• Latex pollution fine
• Biodiesel firm fined
• PCB-waste fine