• We need a teleporter, now

  We need to teleport now into a more climate-conscious world.

• 'Green' electricity loses zero-carbon status

  New emissions reporting guidelines mean firms' emissions may double.

• Green firms hope to avoid slump

  Current economic woes may not hit the environment sector as hard as other industries.

• DEFRA restructure nears completion
• NI green minister to oppose climate Bill
• Tories set out recycling incentives
• EAC on government carbon reductions
• Heathrow decision delayed
• EU launches sustainable consumption package

Corporate

• Carbon Trust launches new standard

  Businesses committing to year-on-year emission cuts can become certified to a new standard.

• Call for emissions reporting benchmarks
• Guide to carbon neutrality
• University green league

Energy & carbon

• CDM credits under pressure

  Fewer CDM carbon credits may be available after the introduction of tougher rules.

• Call for halt to new coal
• Ofgem to review energy market codes
• Public wrong on climate

Pollution & clean-up

• Rabbit causes crypto havoc

  A rabbit forced 250,000 people to boil water after getting into an Anglian Water plant.

• Drinking water report published
• Opacity on flame retardants
• Glebe mines clean-up finally begins

Supply chain

• Moratoria on Amazonian beef, timber mooted

  Brazil is looking at extending a moratorium on soya from deforested areas of the Amazon to beef and timber.

• REACH candidate list under way
• FoE risky chemicals update
• Embodied carbon report
• Sustainability standards for biomass

Waste & resources

• First autoclave plant for non-clinical waste

  The UK’s first autoclaving plant to treat non-clinical waste is due to open in August.

• Commercial waste recycling set to boom
• Recycling project dumped
• REACH pre-registration urged for by-products
• Hazwaste clarification

Science

• GM rethink urged

  The public and farmers have been urged to reconsider GM crops.

• Farmers given tools to manage emissions
• Call for NF3 controls
• Fish respond to climate change

• Tracking waste exports

  A third of English waste disposal authorities cannot say where their waste is recycled.

• Councils' green targets

  Local authorities have set their priorities for the next three years under Local Area Agreements.

• EU and environmental law

  Environmental lawyer Philippe Sands QC points to a fundamental flaw at the heart of the EU’s legal order.

• Household waste exports: best practice

National

• Renewables target to be extended

  BERR has issued a consultation on lifting the Renewables Obligation for electricity to 35%.

• Rises in biofuels target slowed
• Consultation on carbon capture
• Water efficiency targets proposed
• Battery regime delayed
• Eco-towns under fire
• DfT wants tighter car CO₂ targets
• DEFRA launches local air quality guidance
• Food strategy focuses on sustainability
• SEPA shakes-up compliance scheme
• Pitt calls for robust flood-risk management
• DfT makes u-turn on car ads
• Marine objectives consultation launched
• Consultation on Renewables Obligation banding
• Recycling pilot guidance issued
• DEFRA issues crematoria mercury Direction
• Biofuel label rejected
• SEPA consults on odour
• Decentralised energy plants to be licence-free
• Call for 'zero-waste places'

International

• World’s big emitters inch towards a 2009 carbon deal

  G8 leaders meeting in Japan agree big emission cuts are needed, but are not so sure how to share the effort.

• EUETS to cover aviation
• Pesticide rules tightened
• Basel Convention meeting
• Plan for shipping emissions trading blocked
• EU proposed new POPs
• Commission consults on tropical deforestation

• Tom Burke

  Time to stop dithering and press hard on the low-carbon accelerator

• Planning Bill survives rebellion
• Marine Bill inquiry
• Carrier bag legislation brought forward

• Richard Macrory

  Ruling backs open access to electricity systems

• Access to electricity systems
• Shell’s pollution fine
• Severn Trent fined
• Skip firm fined
• South West Water fine
• Southern Water's sewage fine
• Scottish Water fined for overflow
• Fly-tipper shuns court
• Scrap yard in the dock