ENDS Report Issue 444, January 2012
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News
- Huge rise in ‘shut-down’ payments to onshore wind farm operators
- Agency secures first pollution civil sanction
- HS2 rail rolls on despite growing opposition
- Carmakers zoom past European carbon targets
- Long delays for key Environment Agency figures
- Consumer benefits of smart meters queried
- Trio sentenced for pesticide offences
- Thames airport consultation
- UK scrapes under air targets
- DEFRA drops concerns on Norfolk waste plan
Green Strategy
- Sky on course to raise £4m for rainforest protection programme
- No goals set in Westfield’s first green report
- Investors publish new carbon-cutting guide
- Knighthood for DEFRA chief scientist
- IFC beefs up global sustainability rules
Carbon & Energy
- Court judgment on solar cuts threatens feed-in tariff regime
- Drop in free EU allowances risks carbon leakage
- Marked drop in gas leakage over the past decade
- 2011 was second hottest UK year
- CCC criticises Green Deal’s lack of ambition
- Engineering academy reveals household carbon challenge
- Second Humberside offshore wind manufacturing site
- MoD drops wind objections
- British Waterways sets up first wind turbine
- First companies claim renewable heat cash
Waste & Recycling
Water
- Little improvement in river water quality, shows latest WFD report
- Government ‘wrong’ on water pricing
- Utility to create power from drinking water
- Infographic: Water industry's sustainability progress a mixed picture
Pollution & Health
- US research links groundwater pollution to shale gas fracking
- Many common drugs coated with phthalates
- Firms forced to wait longer for council permits
- Success of minewater remediation scheme
- Nano definition is ‘lawyers’ paradise’
- London tightens vehicle pollution controls
Products & Supply Chain
Land & Ecology
Transport
Features
Policy Briefing
National
- Cuts to Renewables Obligation need rethinking, say trade bodies
- SUDS phase-in on the cards
- Small emitters offered way out of EU ETS
- Insurers attack DEFRA over flood risk cover
- Consultation on extending nitrate rules across England and Wales
- Enhanced petrol vapour controls
- Natural England gains new civil sanction powers
- Industrial guidance review delayed again
- Scotland publishes land-use action plan
- MMO to change oil spill treatment approvals
- Grid charges for wind farms to plummet
- DEFRA consults on light pollution exemptions
International
Parliament & Politics
Law & Enforcement
- Richard Macrory's legal commentary: Greater scope to refuse information requests
- Richard Macrory's legal commentary: EU court upholds aviation carbon scheme’s validity
- Two water firms fined for sewage spill pollution
- Siblings jailed for tyre offences
- Northern Ireland waste cases net £25,000 in fines
- Airport fined for water breaches
- Waste boss fined £19k
- Recycling firm fined for noise nuisance
- Jail for Chesterfield skip hire boss ‘driven by greed’
- Jail term for Illegal waste operator
- Waste boss sentenced




