• Transport strategy

  Transport still stuck on the
  wrong road.

• Bali prospects

  Will ministers agree a negotiating mandate for a new international climate deal?

• Climate bill keeps 60% target

  Aviation and shipping excluded from carbon target for now.

• Eurostar offset plans
• Agency on carbon price

Corporate

• Food and drink body avoids quantified targets

  FDA commits to green targets but lack of data and firm goals in some areas undermines initiative.

• BT's wind plans
• Reckitt Benckiser's carbon pledge
• DuPont fined for land contamination
• Shell found guilty by ASA

Energy & carbon

• BERR to buoy energy-from-waste support

  Business Department expected to ensure support for energy-from-waste under the Renewables Obligation.

• 80% carbon cut ‘feasible’
• UK’s first hydrogen grid
• CHP target to be missed
• Eon’s tidal proposal
• Governments cooperate on emissions trading
• Offshore wind farm approved
• £20m for low-carbon vans

Pollution & clean-up

• Soil treatment cluster runs into trouble

  Difficulties sourcing material sets back soil treatment cluster project.

• Market report
• Citizens’ jury on air quality
• IPPC hits farming sector
• Coryton refinery fire
• Walker housing estate
• Cornish mine site contaminated
• DfT on Heathrow noise

Supply chain

• Producer responsibility for paints

  Paint industry to work with government to cut consumer waste.

• ‘Sustainable’ palm oil probed
• Green procurement advice
• First EPEAT gold rating
• GM rice to cost $1bn
• Tesco trials water transport
• Sainsbury’s eco-labels

Waste & resources

• Confusion remains over ELVs

  Latest data shows little improvement in scrap yards’ compliance with ELV regulations.

• WRAP tackles mixed plastics
• Pretreatment rules ineffective
• UK Oils’ licence revoked
• Able UK finally gets planning
• Municipal waste grows

Science

• E-waste exports pollute China

  Chinese scientists uncover pollution and health risks caused by e-waste imported
  into country.

• REACH indicators slammed
• Rising CO₂ levels
• Organic food’s health benefits

• Mass burn begins its big breakthrough

  Incineration of municipal waste could double to 20% by 2015 as councils strive to avoid disposal via landfill.

• Managing nanotech risks

  Manufacturers need to assess product safety before regulation comes into force.

• What price the cost of carbon?

  Will Europe's attempt to lead on climate change encourage carbon-intensive industries to quit the continent?

• Councils considering incineration
• What is nanotechnology?
• Nano products on shelves

National

• Drive for green heat obligation

  Government-commissioned report recommends renewable heat obligation.

• UK transport strategy
• CO₂-based congestion charge
• Wales’s 70% recycling target
• Bathing water quality consultation
• Ofwat on PR09 review
• Hazwaste rules clarified
• Household waste incentives
• POPs regulations issued
• Protocol for vegetable oil
• RTFO administrator set up
• Responses on tax and brownfield development
• Change to Scottish EIA rules
• Hosepipe ban rules to change
• Ofgem sustainability report
• REACH legal challenge

International

• Environment Council's biofuel concerns

  Ministers want more clarity on proposed Directives to cut transport fuel emissions and to boost biofuels.

• Proposals to revise IPPC
• Organotin risk reduction
• MEPs dilute car CO₂ target
• Carbon labelling debated
• EU climate delay

• Bali’s difficulties equal the Cold War’s

  Business needs to play a bigger role in pressuring governments to tackle climate change.

• Agency grilled on flooding
• Inquiry into pre-budget report
• Report on reducing landfill
• Government carbon reporting
• Waste collection inquiry responses
• Marine science agency recommended

• Community competence on pollution offences

  Tensions arise between member states and the European Commission over criminal offences.

• Lords sewage PPC ruling
• BP fined $62m
• Large fines for small firms
• Water company fines
• More King’s Cliffe fines
• Boots fined for effluent leak
• Another fine for Imerys
• Animal carcass fine
• Biffa odour fine
• Illegal export fine
• Moy Park fined £6,000
• Biodiesel fine