• Stepping off the treadmill

• Government abandons its zero-carbon ICT strategy
• EU nitrogen pollution costs ‘up to £280bn’
• Agency loses swathe of top managers
• Firm pushes for diesel as back-up power
• Councils’ environment services face the axe
• Fukushima delays UK nuclear deadlines
• Knowledge of climate change declines
• St Regis ordered to pay £455,000
• Massive solar roll-out to social housing

Green Strategy

• Reporting watchdog lacks bite in Rio Tinto case, say campaigners
• Major UK firms make scant use of CO2 offsets
• WWF tool helps investors assess their water risks
• EIC calls for tougher CRC in green manifesto
• Hewlett Packard wins award for responsibility reporting
• CIWEM launches new entry-level membership grade
• Adidas commits to 100% sustainable cotton use by 2018
• ESG benchmark service launched for FTSE

Carbon & Energy

• Government decision against energy crops not evidence-based
• UK emissions rebound in 2010
• Green homes fail to cut carbon
• Global deal would resolve biofuel doubts
• FITs first year behind schedule on take-up
• World’s shale gas stores are ‘vast’ but climate issues remain
• Aviation condensation doubles warming
• Tidal arrays could be running in 2013
• Ofgem investigates Eon’s CERT claims
• More reprocessing for Sellafield?

Waste & Recycling

• Gasification firm gets renewables support after two-year effort
• UK easily meets recycling targets for packaging
• LGA attacks retailers over food waste
• PVC sector meets recycling targets
• Sterecycle restarts plant operations
• China to keep taking UK paper and plastic
• Standard to prevent illegal e-waste exports

Water

• ‘Big society’ will not help diffuse urban pollution, says academic
• DEFRA to speed up catchment improvement
• ‘Step forward’ in bathing water
• Zantac a source of tap water carcinogen

Pollution & Health

• Mixed dioxins in food ‘not a health concern’, but add to exposure
• Environmental BFR levels still not declining
• EPUK considers future air quality at conference
• Chemical link to smaller babies
• Olympic transport plan likely to breach air quality laws
• AQEG advises on biofuel impacts and Port Talbot
• WHO reports on traffic noise health threat
• Mayor agrees short-term air quality action

Products & Supply Chain

• Asda lambasted for not taking part in HFC phase-out survey
• SDC calls for sustainable food delivery plan
• Industry backs sustainable clothing targets
• World Bank to resume funding palm oil projects
• Greenpeace criticises forest scheme rejig
• European Energy Label goes ‘beyond A’
• McDonald’s acts on sustainable palm oil
• Malaysian palm oil company censured by certification body

Land & Ecology

• Environment Agency backs ‘biobanking’ trading scheme
• Firms guided on valuing nature
• Scottish salmon farms ‘disregard’ environment
• Farm groups set out carbon reduction path
• CLAIRE updates developers’ soils code of practice
• Contaminated land capital grants slashed
• Revised site assessment standard published

Transport

• Government relies on EU ETS to tackle aviation’s climate impacts

• New car emissions fell 3.5% in 2010
• Energy efficient tyres cut CO2 by up to 10%
• New hybrid buses and fuel cell taxis hit London’s streets
• ENDS infographic: Is transport growth turning a corner?

• Electricity storage struggles to add up
• Key electricity storage technologies
• A difficult birth for the Green Investment Bank
• How the bank could help get a £12bn wind farm built

National

• Government kicks off drive to reduce regulatory burdens
• Pro-growth planning reform stepped up
• Mixed messages on CRC reform
• Wales plots radical course to zero waste
• N Ireland sets 60% recycling target for 2020
• Carbon floor price ‘will not harm business’
• Agency takes on adaptation advisory role
• Water white paper delayed
• Treasury to consult on air passenger duty
• N Ireland to streamline industrial rules
• Progress made on marine plans
• Concerns aired over changes to part 2A
• Make businesses show energy certificates, say property firms
• DECC consults on decommissioning fees for oil and gas
• DECC favours data privacy in smart meter roll-out
• Maintaining freight canals ‘unaffordable’
• Ship-to-ship transfer regulations delayed
• Agency confirms 2011/12 permitting fees
• Restore CRC revenue recycling, says CBI

International

• Climate negotiators battle over forthcoming meeting agendas
• Convention acts on PFOS and paraquat
• REACH update on substances in articles

• Tom Burke's political commentary: One year on, coalition’s promise is under stress
• No more shale gas regulation needed, says Environment Agency
• Wastewater NPS in need of overhaul
• Lords kick off nuclear technology inquiry
• Inquiry into 2011 budget’s green impact
• Green party bound for the Lords

• Richard Macrory's legal commentary: ECJ rules on access to environmental justice
• Civil sanction rules intolerable, says minister
• Severn Trent cracks down on trade effluent
• Permit breaches cost waste firm £10,000
• Developer fined for waste offences
• Odours cost poultry company £42,000
• Fitness firm fined for packaging waste
• Farmer fined for water pollution