ENDS Report Issue 459, May 2013
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Politics
- Failure to put value on England’s natural assets ‘threatens growth’
- Carbon leakage back in airport growth debate
- EU climate and energy package due in autumn
- Tweaked growth bill in final weeks
- Winds of change blow Hayes out of climate department
- Tom Burke's political comment: Only trust in science will stop the decline of bees
Business
- Enthusiasm for landfill bans wanes despite potential savings
- Government awards £350m to green energy
- ‘Strike price’ support for renewables
- DEFRA consults on waste plans
- EU ministers attack food fuel cap
- Funding found for fat-fuelled East London CHP plant
- UK AD plants pass the 100 mark
- Infographic: How do Welsh councils tackle household waste?
Compliance
- SEPA gets fresh responsibility under regulatory reform bill
- Natural England plans its future
- OMA used to audit permits
- New standard rules for AD
- Maritime red tape reduced
- Waste and chemical laws ‘are a burden’
- Foul smells cost food firm £52k
- Waste criminal given £213k confiscation order
- Richard Macrory’s legal commentary: Taking responsibility for leaky sewerage pipes
Energy
Specialist
- MPs attack DEFRA’s approach to evidence, pesticides and bees
- 2013 REACH registrations ‘on track’
- Bio-offsets set for legal boost
- Odour models ‘not effective’
- Pesticide risk versus hazard debate revived
- Fluoride pollution does not linger, research finds
- Traffic pollution’s link to asthma quantified
- Comment from Tom Tew: Biodiversity offsetting - a new way of thinking
Sustainability
- Sustainable palm oil roundtable revamp fails to satisfy users
- Nestlé to boost targets for water reduction
- Balfour Beatty spurs clarity in green reporting
- Carbon Trust to speed up labelling
- WRAP launches sustainable procurement guidance
- Comment from Alan Knight: Boardrooms’ role in the sustainability challenge
Features
- Conservative Party: Trimming the greenery
- District heating: Slow growth for vital networks
- Waste infrastructure: Residual doubts over capacity
- Biodiversity offsetting pilots: one year on
- New district heating plant
- Putting the CHP into SELCHP
- Thameslink test the potential of offsetting
- Offsets in the rest of the UK
