ENDS Report Issue 433, February 2011
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News
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Carbon quangos search for new income after government cuts
- Nocton ‘super dairy’ withdrawn
- More green pay freezes
- First adaptation reports set out climate risks
- Nano supply chain forum formed
- Parliament approves CRC amendments
- Public worries about climate change lessen
- Highways Agency’s switch off spreads
- Green industries body hires director
- New green economy council meets
- Wind farm payments criticised as bribery
Green Strategy
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Pressure for full green bank grows but government remains divided
- Firms not put off certification by CRC changes
- Dairy industry fights calls for a change in diet
- Co-op launches new ethical plan
- HSBC’s climate scheme meets targets early
- Telecoms initiative makes start on efficiency goal
- DEFRA finalises green claims code
Carbon & Energy
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Six EU ETS registries reopen after possible €48m allowance theft
- Future of home energy devices are in doubt
- Cuts to solar support face legal challenge
- Hydro planning rules overhauled
- BA’s waste-to-biofuel project is ‘on track’
- Nine carbon capture proposals submitted
- CRC to hit Northern Irish firms hardest
- Interconnector for UK-Norway looked at
- UK greenhouse gas emissions fall in 2009
- UK’s Kyoto success may be overestimated
Waste & Recycling
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Anaerobic digestion gold rush risks spreading waste too thinly
- Kerbside-sorted recycling still best, says report
- Review could open up organic waste market
- Green chemicals maker seeks Teesside wastes
- Gasification projects move forward
- NLWA reopens waste tenders after pfi funding pulled
Water
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Coca-Cola seeks ‘water neutrality’ by offsetting its own use
- Peatland restoration steps up a gear
- Dairy giant acts to cut water costs
- Flood defence scheme cuts confirmed
- Water fluoridation challenge thrown out
Pollution & Health
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Further action needed to meet targets on fine particulates
- Stroke risk rises with road noise
- Dioxins in breast milk cut sons’ sperm count
- Local councils hand out fewer enforcement notices in 2009/10
- NOx reduction plans to emerge in the spring
- Mixed results for air quality in 2010
Products & Supply Chain
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WWF fears UK firms may still be importing illegal timber products
- Palm oil giant pledges to curb climate impacts
- CPET renews approval for timber schemes
- First suspension of an MSC fishery certification
Land & Ecology
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Scientists call for a global revolution in food and farming
- RCEP rejects population limits
- DEFRA warned over voluntary offset approach
- Sustainability focus needed in land clean-up
- DEFRA puts the squeeze on farmers to go green
- UK faces complaint over salmon measures
- Port dredging plan rejected by MMO
- ENDS infographic: Signs that UK rainfall is getting heavier as climate changes
Transport
Features
Policy Briefing
National
- Nuclear accident liability will rise sevenfold for UK operators
- Launch of local transport plan
- Reform of CRC takes shape
- Revised waste plans to face judicial review
- Priority substances come to N Ireland
- Wales consults on ‘quiet areas’
- Scottish Government’s carbon-cutting target
- Progress on plasterboard waste
- Review validates environmental permitting regime
International
- EU ducks mandatory energy efficiency targets for 2020
- EU confirms ban on industrial gas offsets
- Europe votes to broaden e-waste recycling effort
- Early EU ETS auctions move a step closer
- No new pollution caps to be set until 2013
- REACH authorisation guidance finalised
- Green industries threatened by raw material shortage
- Mercury treaty discussions leave much left to decide
Parliament & Politics
- Tom Burke's political commentary: ‘Greenest government’ neglects politics in quest for managerial efficiency
- SDC bows out, leaving greatest task unfinished
- Energy NPSs could spur new dash for gas
- MPs hear debate on shale gas
- MPs call time on climategate
- Cuts could hit marine planning, say MPs
- Inquiries on energy security and supergrid
Law & Enforcement
- Richard Macrory's legal commentary: Habitats ruling impacts planning decisions
- Bradford waste firm fined £61k
- Pollution costs landfill operator £83,000
- Xylene pollution costs chemicals maker £20,000
- Green appeals system ripe for simplification
- Water firms pay £40,000 in compensation
- Water firms’ pollution fines hit £377,000
- TEG Environmental fined £14,000 for odour
- Quarry fined for pollution offence
- £50,000 bill for packaging offences
- Prison sentence for illegal tyre dumping
- Illegal waste dump costs recycling company £70,000
- Farming business fined £8,000 for killing fish
- Eight months’ jail for illegal pet cremator
- Father and son jailed for waste offences
