ENDS Report Issue 441, October 2011
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News
- Flagship Longannet CCS project scrapped due to cost concerns
- DECC revises subsidies for renewables
- Certifiers in argument over accreditation
- Mock trial tests 'ecocide' plans
- Setback for airline challenge to CO2 trading
- EPUK staffing shrinks as funding falls
- £10 million of LEZ fines unpaid
- Pylon winner announced
Green Strategy
- Sainsbury's piles the basket high with new sustainability targets
- John Lewis's biomass plans advance
- Alliance Boots trials carbon-cutting algae
- More big firms set themselves carbon targets
- US engineering group to buy Halcrow
- SEPA to miss carbon reduction target
Carbon & Energy
- Weightman report clears safety of the UK's nuclear reactors
- EU emissions resumed their rise in 2010
- Firms cooperate to finance Green Deal upgrades
- Localism leads to less council climate work
- Business losing patience with climate talks
- Good bill of health for solar thermal units
- Carbon cost of wind farms back-up is small
- First ever firm appeals against CRC regulation
- More wave and tidal sites awarded to developers
- Infographic: High population density curbs carbon emissions
Waste & Recycling
- DoE 'shameful' handling of waste legislation in action against firm
- Shortage of UK facilities drives RDF export rise
- Illegal shipment costs waste firms £23,000
- IPC approves Covanta waste incinerator site
- £250m pledged for weekly waste collections
- Plastic firms defend oxo-degradable bags
- Thinktank says pay people to recycle
- Cleaning firm fined for unpermitted waste
- OFT reviews organic waste and sludge treatment in the UK
Water
- Food industry must make big cuts in water use to meet 2020 target
- More Scottish water aluminium problems
- Thames trials new use for waste biogas
Pollution & Health
- Researchers discover 'first ever' ozone hole in Arctic stratosphere
- Consultation puts doubt on PM10 extension
- Mixed progress on UK air quality
- National low-emission zone campaign begins
- Arson leads to 10,000 fish kill
- Foam affects rivers in Newcastle and London
- Ineos chemical release to be investigated
Products & Supply Chain
- New greenhouse gas standards to aid full emissions disclosure
- Energy hungry gadgets put CO2 target at risk
- Up to 15% of UK F-gas companies working illegally
- Government defines green lifestyles
- Retailers still failing on REACH disclosure
- Food expiry labels simplified to cut waste
- Multinationals to drop high-carbon suppliers
Land & Ecology
- Government's growth obsession threatens nature, say NGOs
- Brofiscin Quarry clean-up begins
- Contaminated land guidance expected soon
- Green spaces advocacy group awaits direction
- DEFRA approves GM wheat trial in UK
- Protected birds killed by banned pesticide
- Plan agreed to expand national parks
Transport
Features
Policy Briefing
National
- NPPF consultation reveals true depth of opposition to proposals
- Ofwat simplifies reporting rules
- BIS reneges on green reporting pledge for firms
- Consultations open on changes to industrial regulation scheme fees
- Natural England board approves charging plans
- Agency needs evidence to back regulation
- Scotland changes shellfish controls
- BSI proposes Green Deal upgrade standard
- Agency consults on groundwater guidance
- DECC closes feed-in tariff loophole
- Northern Ireland updates EIA rules
International
- Agreement on new international climate treaty is still years away
- Plans to reform CAP slammed as 'greenwash'
- EU consults on 'inadequate' F-gas legislation
- France votes for broad BPA ban
- Australian parliament passes carbon scheme
- ECHA considers ban on phthalates cocktail
- Larger footprint for fuel from oil sands
- Chemicals considered for POPs treaty
- Unclear legal basis for biodiversity panel
Parliament & Politics
- Tom Burke's political commentary: From the greenest government ever... to our very own Tea Party
- Osborne speech alarms green groups and low-carbon investors
- MPs lambast plans for carbon budget review
- MPs say UK has to plan offshore 'supergrid'
- Deregulation drive faces Brussels barrier
- Shadow cabinet and DfT reshuffle
Law & Enforcement
- Richard Macrory's legal commentary: Aviation emission trading survives first legal hurdle
- Two families get jail terms for waste offences
- M&S fined £1m for asbestos rule breaches
- West Country retailer fined for waste offences
- Southern Water fined £25k for sewage spill
- Scottish Water fined twice in seven days
- Welsh Water fined for over-abstraction
- Pig farming firm fined for odour failures
- Developer fined for illegal burning
- Waste company fined for lacking permit
- Waste offences cost director £18,000
- Diesel spill costs distillery £15,000
- Illegal car scrapping leads to £7,000 penalty
