• Comment: Not in front of the children

  Economic growth matters but so, too, does maintaining our planet’s life support system

• Green good intentions collide with savage spending cuts

• Landfill fine raised to £90k on appeal
• Anglers object to canal repair without an EIA
• Marine protected areas announced
• HSE warns offshore oil and gas over safety record
• AEA cuts nearly 100 UK staff
• Farm environment scheme reports
• Fly-tipping gang sentenced
• Royal Society publishes reviews of food and farming
• Staff changes at EPUK and Water UK

Corporate

• O2 sets out role of communication technology in greener workplace

• Agency revises estimate on CRC participation
• CRC simulation shows challenge to public sector
• Transport sector lags on carbon management
• Met Office reports on CSR for the first time
• Innospec director settles bribery charges from US
• Law firm survey identifies cleantech growth areas
• Correction: Green Investment Bank
• NHS shake-up could create CRC headache

Energy & carbon

• Geothermal electricity seeks finance for new Cornish schemes

• Climate policy costs calculated
• DECC considers long-term mix of energy sources
• Scrap FITs and CRC trading, says thinktank
• ‘PV for free’ market booms
• Biofuel plant’s climate impact not considered
• Energy firms on track to exceed CERT targets
• Inquiries on offshore drilling, power station emissions announced
• Corus looks to enter wind turbine market
• Transport needs of bulky bioenergy

Pollution & clean-up

• Rainwater harvesting devices pollute drinking water supply

• Nitrate levels falling slowly
• Agency tracks toxic fireworks
• Beaches should lose blue flags, say surfers
• HPA issues new radon guidance
• Delays in process guidance note review
• Refinery odour hits Pembrokeshire
• DEFRA confirms contaminated land guidance review
• PCB levels in UK air continue to fall

Supply chain

• Public sector adopts forward commitment procurement

• REACH study faces more flak
• Peat has highest CO2 emissions
• Palm oil audit results mixed
• Window frame receives PassivHaus standard
• Network Rail ‘on track’ to meet sourcing goals
• ASA bans two BMW ads
• REACH registrations need to increase ten-fold
• Draft standard for testing oxo-biodegradable plastic

Waste & resources

• Pioneer council turns its back on food waste anaerobic digestion

• Agency finally tackles SWMPs
• Republic takes back its waste
• Competition for wood heats up
• Midlands councils go for incineration
• No clear trend on waste gate fees
• Vehicle recycling still below target
• End for paper waste transfer notes

Science

• Water firms warned over UK’s extreme rainfall increases

• Studies uncover nanosilver risks
• GM oilseed rape found in the wild

• District heating’s struggle to go national

• London’s second go at district heating
• Towards sustainability – a long and winding road FREE

National

• Big planning shake-up provokes green alarm

• Huhne reveals thinking on new energy policy
• Input wanted for natural environment white paper
• Guidance published on EU funding for CCS
• EIA regulations to be amended for England
• Government to speed up smart meter roll-out
• Radioactive substance exemptions to change
• Greenhouse gas targets for biomass easily met
• Government cuts EU ETS allowances for CHP
• Plans for water industry competition gather pace
• Regulator seeks to boost smart grid investment
• Waste policy review avoids specific targets
• HPA’s contaminated land advice at risk from cuts
• Consultation aims to plug environmental permitting gaps
• Tax law changed to boost North Sea oil production
• Refuelling guidance to be updated
• Heat incentive to be unveiled in October
• Environment Agency relaxes waste permits
• ROCs guaranteed for biomass plants

International

• Stillborn cap-and-trade bill forces policy rethink

• Renewed polarisation holds back climate talks
• Rift over impact of biofuels on land-use
• Commission publishes draft refineries BREF

• Tom Burke's political commentary: Cameron’s big test: the green investment bank

• Richard Macrory's legal commentary: Landowners lose out on oil extraction windfall

• Firms fined for polluting the same stream
• Scrapyard prosecutions net £45,000
• Waste offences cost scaffolding firm £95,000
• Anglian pays £54,800 for pump failure
• Packaging breach costs flooring company more than £36,000
• Farm fined for slurry pollution
• Trafigura found guilty of illegal export
• Textile dyer fined for effluent breach
• Illegal landspreading costs firm £25,000
• Proceeds of Crime Act yields £35,000 forfeit