• Comment: Greenest government ever?

  When quangos like the Sustainable Development Commission are cut, it suits politicians to forget that they are arms-length bodies to ensure independence from government spin

• Environmental bodies fall to government’s quango cuts

• Climate committee warns over cuts to low-carbon research
• Carbon tax may not give boost to nuclear power
• Business told to address impact on biodiversity
• CIWEM courts controversy with campaigning stance
• Floods meeting debates future funding sources
• Councils face £12bn funding cuts by 2014/15
• Agency queries air quality impact of power station
• CRC registrations lagging, agency figures show
• Councils' 2008/09 emissions revealed
• Public inquiry over airport expansion
• £92,000 bill for composting site

Corporate

• Chief executives urge drive for sustainable business practice

• Green bank may make Carbon Trust redundant
• Demise of RDAs risks delivery of green initiatives
• Building firms set out carbon cuts road map
• Mondi scores at the top of WWF paper index
• Beefed up Equator Pinciples fail to impress campaigners
• Formula One teams agree carbon reduction plan

Energy & carbon

• EEF calls for rethink of ‘confusing and complex’ climate policies

• UK to miss 2022 carbon targets
• South-west set for solar boom
• Biofuel sellers miss targets
• Microrenewables 'pick up pace'
• More offshore wind grants
• Councils ignore solar PV development rights
• Algal biofuel still years away, says US DoE
• ENDS infographic: UK renewable energy target remains a long way off

Pollution & clean-up

• Buncefield firms to pay out £9.4m for safety and pollution offences

• Extra treatment not needed for oestrogens
• Urban dioxins 20 times lower than in 1991
• NAO slams Environment Agency efforts to control diffuse pollution
• Site assessment guidance review under way
• Post-Chernobyl farm monitoring lifted in Scotland
• Alcan smelter joins in air pollution trading
• Health impact of PM10 studied as London breaches limit
• Slug pellets cause minor dip in tap water quality

Supply chain

• Illegal logging drops in producer countries but concerns remain

• Manufacturers expand green product goals
• Carbon labelling ‘makes no sense’
• Carbon Trust pitches service for data centre design
• Firms call for greener product policies
• Forest Stewardship Council to charge
• Carbon cuts possible in chemical logistics
• Six firms remain in lighting competition

Waste & resources

• Spate of tyre fires at recycling sites played down by industry

• UK close to waste treatment overcapacity
• Gasification plant shut for dioxin breaches
• Council hits 70% recycling rate for the year
• Over 3 million tonnes of AD capacity coming
• Bristol waste trial falls victim to spending cuts
• WRAP offers £2m in recycling loans

Science

• Climategate review: still no doubt over climate science credibility

• Soot could spoil climate change mitigation plans
• Decision on BPA safety delayed
• Data still lacking, finds nanotube study

• What to do with an old oil platform

• The Brent Spar: a lesson for the oil industry
• When nature calls, size matters – and money too

National

• Legal fears force energy policy re-consultation

• Huhne gathers views for CCS demonstration
• Resources shortage curbs biodiversity action
• Duty of care regime to require businesses to follow waste hierarchy
• Law conference unveils civil sanctions details
• Extended CERT scheme focuses on insulation
• Infrastructure Planning Commission to close
• New microgeneration strategy on its way
• Agency issues environmental permitting guidance
• Northern Ireland issues guidance on greenfield soil
• Consultation on concessionary drainage charges
• Offshore protection rules extended to gas storage and CCS
• DEFRA consults on marine management
• Councils able to sell renewable electricity
• Wales trumps English building standards
• DEFRA consults on solvent use guidance

International

• Post-2012 EU ETS work reaches key milestone

• CDM limits threaten carbon price spike
• Leaders squander chance to cut fossil fuel support
• Proposal to revamp and unify EIA procedures
• State GM bans mooted
• More standards proposed for tertiary lighting
• ECHA consults on REACH restriction proposals
• EU Buildings Directive comes into force
• Review of agriculture in river basin plans
• Draft soil screening standard published
• Commission consults on fluoridation risks

• Tom Burke's political commentary: Nuclear companies open new front in fight for government subsidies

• Richard Macrory's legal commentary: Court allows disturbance of protected species

• Chemical maker pays out almost £20k for odour
• Plymouth City Council sold WEEE illegally
• Ice cream maker fined £10k for river pollution
• Scottish Water fined for sewage spill
• Hazwaste processor’s fine reduced by £25,000
• Site Serv fined for illegal sludge
• Chemicals firm fined £15k for air pollution
• Caravan park fined for pollution offence
• West Sussex care home owners fined £10,000
• United Utilities fined for sewer overflow
• Southern Water fined for sewage pollution