ENDS Report Issue 443, December 2011
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News
- Natural England and Environment Agency to follow pro-growth remit
- CRC data cast doubt on 10:10 carbon targets
- Carbon scheme trading price hits all-time low
- Osborne offers energy boost amid the gloom
- Government admits breach of air quality law
- EEF sets out plans for greener economy
- Palm oil pollution costs tanker £95,000
- Forestry panel backs public woodland
- Exits and arrivals at Natural England, SEPA
- REACH lists its first endocrine disruptor
- National Grid given key role in electricity market reform
Green Strategy
- Business leaders must inspire change, Sky survey finds
- Who manages biodiversity for your firm?
- Audit office tells DEFRA to offer better value
- Study highlights commercial benefits of EMSs for small firms
- CDP sees increase in 2011 water reporting
Carbon & Energy
- Green Deal one of five priorities for Green Investment Bank
- Keep biomass for specialist uses, says CCC
- Carbon capture trials without the storage
- Emissions cuts save NHS England £3m
- IPCC: expect the unexpected
- Application for UK’s first offshore wind plant
- Tidal energy barrage back on the cards for Severn estuary
- London museums investigate heating and cooling network
- Funding boost for energy efficiency
- Infographic: How hospitals cope with the EU emissions trading scheme
Waste & Recycling
- Environment Agency launches taskforce to deal with waste crime
- Survey reveals concern over waste targets
- DEFRA reverses recycling policy
- London finalises waste strategies
- Fly-tipper jailed for 15 months
- Man fined for poor waste storage
- WEEE reuse and recycling passes 50%
Water
- English water companies to take drought action this winter
- Massive fish kill costs firm £61k
- Showers are not more efficient, says Unilever
- Hydropower firm fined for non-approved work
Pollution & Health
- Industrial air pollution cost the EU economy up to £145bn in 2009
- EPUK forced to close due to funding cuts
- Agency starts to examine third-party auditing
- Chemical firm fined for nitrogen dioxide cloud
- CCS could increase air pollutants, says EEA
- Cement works cleared over health fears
- New air quality index to start in January
Products & Supply Chain
- Puma accounts for the damage it causes to the environment
- Green direct mail standard due next year
- Rainforest Alliance to certify Ghana cocoa
- Top supermarket pesticide performers
Land & Ecology
- NGOs denounce English review of wildlife law as a 'serious threat'
- Treasury u-turn on remediated land tax relief
- SEPA moves on Dalgety Bay contamination
- Council planners express strong doubts on NPPF
- New beauty area for Wales
Transport
Features
Policy Briefing
National
- Confident Carbon Plan sets out obligations and cuts bureaucracy
- Green Deal stops short of bill guarantee
- Major steps forward for new nuclear plans
- Water firms to compete for business clients
- SME pollution control guide to be expanded
- Welsh nature bodies to merge
- Wales consults on sustainable development
- Ofwat pushes water trading in new proposals
- Post-Chernobyl sheep control may be lifted
- First renewable heat scheme finally opens
- Northern Ireland PPC regulations amended
- Consultation on revised wood-burning guidance
International
Parliament & Politics
Law & Enforcement
- Richard Macrory's legal commentary: Court reviews corporate criminal liability under environmental law
- Richard Macrory's legal commentary: High Court rules on survey rights for large infrastructure projects
- Sewage spills cost two water firms £64,000
- Fines for permit breaches at two chicken farms
- County Down man sentenced for running illegal waste site
- Landowner fined for raising flood risk
- Waste prosecution for Ballygowan skip boss
- Food group fined for site odour breaches
- Man fined for dumping and burning waste
