• Growth will never be green

  There is something profoundly wrong with our addiction to economic growth.

• DECC takes clean coal lead

  Plan to make new plants install carbon capture technology.

• UK announces carbon budgets

  The Budget calls for 34% carbon cut by 2020.

• Campaigners face job cuts
• ENDSCarbon benchmarking service to launch
• Electric vehicle buyers to get subsidies
• Call for international environmental court
• Augean Treatment fined £90,000 for fire
• WRAP takes charge of waste
• McAfee counts carbon cost of spam
• Quinn Glass ordered to close
• ENDS infographic: Spring comes earlier as the UK warms

Corporate

• Carbon liability disclosure

  WWF wants energy firms to report the financial liability arising from their emissions.

• Investors exposed to chemical safety risks
• BP Solar cuts jobs
• Concrete industry publishes green report

Energy & carbon

• CERT 'failing' insulation industry

  Job losses are blamed on poor scheme management.

• Airlines call for global carbon trading
• Confusion over offshore wind's funding needs
• California tackles biofuels' indirect impacts
• Agency calls for biomass standards
• 2008 EU ETS emissions figures released
• Adair Turner to stay on climate committee
• UK emissions still falling
• Takings down in UK's carbon allowance auction

Pollution & clean-up

• Sellafield radioactive scare

  Green groups claim a leak was narrowly avoided in April.

• Soil guideline values frustrate practitioners
• Motorway lights to be switched off
• Go-ahead for Merseyside tannery clean-up
• Sinking barge leaks sewage

Supply chain

• Savings for greener junk mail

  Royal Mail has launched a reduced-rate service for direct mail meeting new criteria.

• Trade union publishes priority chemicals list
• Prisons to get reusable, recyclable matresses
• Water footprinting takes hold
• Organic food industry hit by recession
• PC firms 'backtrack' on chemical pledges
• Car air-con gas update
• BRE awards first sourcing marque

Waste & resources

• Whistleblower calls for incinerator closure

  An ex-employee has alleged serious failings at a Bolton plant.

• Attempt to improve recycling in flats
• UK meets packaging targets
• Report on incinerator dioxin emissions
• Treasury funds fifth of Manchester PFI

Science

• Oestrogens found in bottled water

  Mineral water could contribute to exposure to oestrogens, a German study suggests.

• Endometriosis linked to PCBs
• More evidence of nanotubes' asbestos-like effects

• Time to rent chemicals rather than buy

  Manufacturers have found value in leasing rather than buying chemicals.

• Green business: the UK’s struggling giant

  The UK has one of the world's largest green industrial sectors, but the recession is endangering growth.

• Why green growth is impossible

  The Sustainable Development Commission has aired what may be the most inconvenient of truths.

• Chemical leasing in the UK
• Contract halves energy use
• 12 steps to break with growth

National

• Water resources strategy supports industry rejig

  A restructure may be on the cards for the UK's water industry.

• South Downs given national park status
• Scotland sets incinerator energy recovery standard
• WEEE proposals are inadequate, say recyclers
• New funding rules benefit public transport
• Consultation on climate change agreements
• Permit exemption plans cause controversy
• WEEE and RoHS revisions up for consultation
• Battery recycling rules adopted
• Debate over water protection zones
• UK industry sets out its low-carbon vision
• Agency sets out Thames Barrier plan
• Supply chain audits urged for biofuels
• Revised F-gas regulations enter into force
• Regulatory budgets scrapped
• Call for chemical mixture assessment
• Changes to clinical waste guidelines
• Nuclear siting consultation
• Local air quality guidance finalised
• Water companies' final business plans
• Timber buying rules tightened
• ASA gets tougher on adverts' green claims

International

• Slow start to a global low-carbon revolution

  The G20 and UN summits in April produced patchy outcomes, but there were some gains.

• EU ministers discuss climate adaptation
• Nanomaterials in food and cosmetics to be tested
• Design and labelling directives revised
• New cement and lime guidance
• US EPA decision could lead to emissions regulation
• Cadmium exposure limit cut
• Updated EU ecolabel excludes hazardous chemicals
• Sofa-burn fungicide banned
• Member states to decide own GM co-existence rules
• EU energy project funding allocated
• EU climate package finalised

• Spying, round-ups, batons and kettling won’t work

  Business leaders would be unwise to applaud heavy-handed tactics to stop protesters.

• MPs recommend government looks at geo-engineering
• MPs recommend single ecolabel
• Fuel duty escalator 'desirable'
• New inquiry on carbon budgets
• MPs to probe low-carbon technology
• Greening government inquiry
• Fuel Poverty Bill stalled
• Pitt to chair planning body

• Stansted challenge rejected

  The rejection of a claim regarding Stansted airport expansion highlights the problems campaigners face.

• Court places curb on limestone extraction
• Waste tyre dumper jailed
• Anglian fined £75,000
• Waste crime round-up
• Packaging penalties
• Glebe Mines fined for flood
• N Ireland secures first confiscation order
• Odours at WRG Waste landfill leads to fine
• Landfill gas monitoring failures
• Farm firm pollutes lake