• Secret policemen won’t help

• Marina developer ordered to pay £630,000 for illegal dredging
• Fraud shuts EU ETS registries
• Fund for green aggregates quietly killed
• DEFRA to slash quango funding over four years
• Another hottest year for the planet
• Five arrested over Irish pork dioxin contamination
• First fine given for landfill gas release
• Slow greening for London’s transport

Green Strategy

• Reckitt Benckiser claims early progress on carbon target
• Virgin Media trails rivals in its green reporting
• Clean energy investment hit $243bn in 2010
• Green channel speeds environmental patents
• Small steps for carbon survey
• Business struggles to tap green growth potential

Carbon & Energy

• Household electricity and gas tariffs discourage CO2 cuts
• Government’s electricity plan is ‘half baked’
• UK greenhouse gas emissions underestimated
• Tyndall Centre urges caution on shale gas
• UK carbon dioxide emissions grow in 2010
• New CRC carbon reduction standard approved
• Deepwater horizon’s leaked methane eaten by bugs
• Hampshire to launch home insulation plan
• Geothermal heat winners announced

Waste & Recycling

• Construction pioneer just misses zero landfill target
• Firms cut waste, boost recycling
• Councils seek judicial review of PFI decision
• Man dies after autoclave explosion

Water

• Green Deal misses chance to cut cost of reducing water use
• Scotland’s disinfection by-products increase
• Lafarge refused abstraction change
• Competition brings slight benefits

Pollution & Health

• Data for coal-fired power stations pose questions for regulator
• PM2.5 could have hastened a third of 2008 deaths
• UK pollution inventory still questionable
• Government fights to keep London air pollution data secret
• Agency offers leeway in cold weather
• UK probably met NO2 ceiling in 2010
• Workers evacuated after Kilmarnock ammonia leak

Products & Supply Chain

• ClientEarth slams ‘misleading’ and ‘unverified’ fish claims
• First penalties imposed for biofuel breaches
• ‘Responsible’ jewellery firms certified
• More substances put forward for reach authorisation
• Certification scheme for data centres

Land & Ecology

• Farmland birds benefit from the government’s stewardship scheme
• Limit on car spaces for new homes scrapped
• ENDS Infographic: SSSI's show huge improvement in habitat quality

• The voluntary approach: look before you leap FREE
• Was a construction agreement the right solution? FREE
• Missing signatories taint DIY sector agreement FREE
• Courtauld Commitment: into the second round FREE
• Hype or hope: can smart meters cut energy use?
• A guide to the smart grid

National

• Environment should be a cross-government priority
• Keep water savers in CERT, say campaigners
• DEFRA sets targets for peat phase-out
• DCLG pushes planning reform
• Contaminated land guidance review begins
• DECC ponders future of CCAs
• Government settles on minor changes to pesticide policies
• Councils should set their own fees, says LGR
• Scottish Water’s duties set for an overhaul
• Agency consults on rules for anaerobic digesters
• DEFRA consults on ‘shred and spread’ changes
• Scottish government backs increase for tidal power in 2012
• Government consults on non-nuclear radioactive waste
• Government consults on microgeneration strategy

International

• Commission finalises phase III EU ETS benchmark criteria
• Hungary lays out its green priorities
• Commission says EU carbon tax is coming
• Industrial Emissions Directive enters force
• Delay for indirect land use change decision
• EU reaches agreement on van emissions

• Tom Burke's political commentary: marriage made in heaven or a crash waiting to happen
• Water rules too costly, say MPs
• ‘Greater care needed’ for deepwater oil
• Call to transfer sustainability role from DEFRA
• Government ‘botched’ quango review

• Richard Macrory's legal commentary: Supreme Court considers Aarhus costs principles
• Anti-fossil fuel activists snatch a moral victory
• Anglian Water fined for sewage discharge
• Pollution costs contractor £10,000
• Civil sanctions regime comes into force
• Brewery fined for water pollution
• Former skip hire boss jailed for not paying confiscation order
• Lafarge fined for over abstraction of water
• Correction