• Comment: Avoid this unhappy landing

• Environment Agency sets out plans to cope with budget cuts
• Single bidder for St Helena airport project
• Government to use 'nudges' to cut carbon
• DECC to close FITs loophole for solar projects
• Agency issues its first civil sanction
• Food company fined for river pollution
• Ratcliffe 20 win their appeal
• Race begins for large nature area bids
• Biodiversity strategy 'delayed by Letwin'
• 'Radical' Green House thinktank launched
• UK’s green taxes take a smaller share
• MPs vote through energy policy

Green Strategy

• Austerity drive hitting green progress, finds survey
• Green defence plan comes in under the radar
• Investment principles 'too weak and vague'
• AkzoNobel plans £100m greener paint plant
• Private equity firms' impacts assessed in new database
• Firms urged to rethink reporting strategy

Carbon & Energy

• Climate committee berates failure to reduce emissions
• Property giants shun renewables
• Electricity tariff to follow wind generation
• Whitehall surpasses 10:10 carbon reduction objectives with 14%
• Sainsbury’s hydro application rejected
• Committee advises 50% target for Scotland
• Ford building third turbine in Dagenham
• DECC faces 'major risks' from smart meter rollout
• Infographic: Pollsters reveal the world's biggest environmental worries

Waste & Recycling

• Hospitality sector could save £6m by handling its food waste better
• Commingled disagreement heads to court
• Biffa fined for landfill odours
• Waste industry signs responsibility deal
• DEFRA confirms fund to boost anaerobic digestion capacity

Water

• Anglian Water looks at long-term impacts of climate on supplies
• Nanosilver not a threat to rivers
• Water compliance back on track
• WHO updates drinking water guidance

Pollution & Health

• Reports conflict over benefits of stricter low-emission zone
• UK avoids fines as air quality plans accepted
• Draft opinion on chemicals out for comment
• Green spending shows effect of recession
• Healthy Air Campaign launched by EPUK
• Appeal shows lack of inspector's powers

Products & Supply Chain

• Government's green food rules exclude schools and hospitals
• Tour operators back ecolabel for hotels
• Sustainability group to adopt emissions standard for products
• F-gas refrigeration deadline passes
• Vehicle fuel-saving device claims banned
• Chinese textile sites linked to pollution
• Mid-size industry sees environment as a risk
• DEFRA research shows cost of pesticide loss

Land & Ecology

• Discards ban would help boost fisheries to sustainable levels
• Biodiversity crisis 'will not be avoided'
• Vulnerability to climate change 'increasing'
• Mineral producers fall out over new fund
• Three new offshore protected areas proposed

Transport

• London scheme boosts cycling but green benefits are sparse
• DfT scales back street charging for green cars

• Smart regulation: coming up from down under
• Red Tape challenge update
• Government plans for regulatory enforcement
• Green power: in a hurry, high stakes, big bucks
• Roadmap’s ups and downs for renewables

National

• Government responds to report on low-carbon construction
• Business split over carbon reporting plans
• Businesses unhappy with CRC plans
• Offset scheme for zero-carbon homes outlined
• Hazwaste policy statement takes shape
• DECC consults on nuclear waste sites
• Ofwat to amend its approach to price reviews
• Energy policy still ignores carbon budgets
• Waste voluntary agreement study delayed
• Renewable grant scheme launched but heat incentive delayed
• Timber, gas turbine and crematoria consultations
• DECC promises more wind noise guidance
• Agency consults on hydro-power guidance
• DECC passes the buck on microgen strategy
• Marine body consults on enforcement policy
• UK’s fourth carbon budget enters law
• Scotland tightens PPC rules on 'fit and proper persons'
• Agency on waste fuel in coke and steel production
• Planning act changes to ease super sewer consent

International

• Australia set for world’s second largest carbon trading scheme
• MEPs reject 30% CO2 target
• EU plan freezes farm funding
• MEPs support right to ban GM
• EU air quality law review kicks off
• Five nations block asbestos restriction

• Tom Burke's political commentary: Nixon's environmentalism is a lesson from history
• Committee criticises government plans to scrap emergency tugs
• MPs want more green taxes
• Minister ducks MP's air quality questions
• Green strategy needed to help foreign aid
• MPs start EU ETS trading inquiry
• MPs launch inquiry on Rio+20 conference
• Marine renewables funding in spotlight

• Richard Macrory's legal commentary: Court backs government on renewables support
• Record four-year jail sentence handed to illegal waste criminal
• Fuel tax dodger jailed following major spillage
• £35k bill for soil dumped in lake
• River pollution costs flower firm £50k
• Hinton Organics fined for taking food waste
• Somerset recycler fined for missing WEEE paperwork
• Waste firm fined for permit breaches
• Waste site owner jailed and £700,000 confiscated