• Bad boy, George FREE

• Osborne’s axe spares some carbon and biodiversity plans

• Treasury’s decision to keep CRC payments leaves business reeling
• Change your culture, DEFRA tells agency
• Little clarity on renewable heat incentive or FITs
• Council groups lose waste PFI funding

Green Strategy

• Consumer goods giant plans switch to renewable energy

• Consultants’ results show UK market still flat
• Heinz holds on to heat to slash emissions
• Lafarge to develop low-carbon cement
• Trinity Mirror first to retain emissions reduction standard
• Mixed results for UN Investment Principles
• Property investment guidance issued
• Companies find climate change opportunities
• IEMA joins call for mandatory greenhouse gas reporting
• BP to bring safety management in-house
• Voluntary offsets gain the edge over CERs

Carbon & Energy

• Carbon leakage threat to UK heavy industry could be exaggerated

• Thames Water puts renewable gas into the grid
• EU uncertainty hits low-carbon investment
• Carbon Trust firm finally submits planning application
• Pumped hydro makes a comeback in Scotland
• Carbon Trust opens SME certification
• UK shipping emissions underestimated
• Uncertainty over Scotland’s increased renewables target
• Demise of summer Arctic ice continues
• Controversy over ILUC and biofuels continues
• DEFRA’s reporting guidance to cover life-cycle emissions

Waste & Recycling

• US-style reward scheme boosts recycling by up to 40%

• Thames to build first phosphate recovery plant
• Scotland misses recycling target
• Sita signs £1bn public finance contract
• Sainsbury’s packaging prosecution dropped

Water

• CIWEM calls for ‘shadow price of water’ to show its true cost

• Farm pollution under scrutiny
• Sewage pumps’ efficiency tested
• Northern Ireland still lags on drinking water

Pollution & Health

• UK power sector slowly joins the SCR revolution to cut NOx

• EFSA retains BPA health limit
• EPUK reports on creating city tranquillity
• COMAH compliance improves in the EU
• Agency trials tackle metal minewaters
• ENDS infographic: Ozone layer on the slow road to recovery

Products & Supply Chain

• New enforcement body promises more action on appliances

• Last-minute rush to register for REACH
• Carbon label reaches £2bn milestone
• Plastics disclosure project launched
• New REACH rules proposed for PBTs
• Ecolabel launched for detergents
• Universal certification recommended for fisheries

Land & Ecology

• Severn barrage is shelved once more but it might be back

• JRC: UK soils at risk
• Farmland expands at forests’ expense

Transport

• International aviation body comes to global agreement on emissions

• Hauxton clean-up shows what can be achieved
• Comment: A really green way of saving £300m FREE
• Communicating contaminated land risks

National

• DECC launches redrafted energy national policy statements

• DECC admits to gap in carbon budgets
• London waste strategy to target carbon
• DEFRA hears calls for landfill, incinerator bans
• Huhne justifies new nuclear
• Fee freeze for pollution control
• Welsh strategy targets 40% emissions cut
• N Ireland launches low-carbon drive
• DEFRA consults on woodland carbon reporting
• Release of solvents guidance notes
• National performance indicators to be axed
• Consultation on land spreading of waste
• Renewables NPS weakens green belt controls
• London consults again on climate strategy
• Drinking water guidance updated
• Devolved governments consult on marine licensing regimes
• Scotland to develop emergency water plans
• Fuel ash reuse standards agreed
• Contaminated land rules extended to some radon

International

• Tianjin climate talks stuck in holding pattern over summit

• Farming subsidy plans disappoint
• EU sets out conditions for climate treaty
• OSPAR agrees green strategy
• Studies moot criteria for DVD players, games
• EU presidency calls for nano register
• European council approves timber law
• Consultation on RoHS exemptions

• Tom Burke's political commentary: The risks that mining can’t dig its way out of

• MPs warned over threat to CCS and low-carbon power
• Shadow cabinet announced
• MEPs: tighter offshore drilling rules needed

• Richard Macrory's legal commentary: Judges blow hot and cold on Aarhus rules

• Chemical spill costs Biolab £146,000
• Groundwater pollution costs jet fuel supplier
• South West Water fined for polluting stream
• Permit breach costs waste firm £36,000
• Packaging waste offences cost car parts firm £41,000
• Veolia wins water contamination case
• Haulage firm and driver fined for polluting beck
• Scottish coal company hit with £7,000 fine
• Property firm fined for permit breaches
• Barratt homes fined for polluting stream
• Record us fine for BP's refinery failures
• Transport company fined for oil spill