Magazine March 2015
Transform Magazine March 2015
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Product transparency
As environmental product declarations become more common, Maxine Perella finds out whether the benefits outweigh the costs
Non-key issues are being successfully scoped out of environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for major infrastructure projects, according to an analysis by consultancy Aecom.
Martin Baxter, IEMA's executive director, policy and engagement and one of the UK's appointed experts on the working group, provides members with a progress report on the revisions to ISO 14001.
Andrew Wiseman highlights changes to the thresholds for environmental impact assessment and wonders whether raising them will make much of a difference in practice.
An appeal in FCC Environment (UK) v Secretary of state for energy and climate change [2015] has been dismissed.
The UN compliance committee for the Aarhus convention has concluded that the award of costs against Greenpeace for its failed legal bid to designate the national policy statement for nuclear power generation were "prohibitively expensive".
The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has ruled in the proceedings between Marktgemeinde Straßwalchen and the Bundesminister für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend concerning a decision to allow Rohöl-Aufsuchungs AG to carry out exploratory drilling in the municipality of Straßwalchen in Austria.
Guildford Crown Court has fined Thames Water £220,000 and ordered it to pay £27,500 costs for polluting a watercourse running through a site of special scientific interest and killing scores of fish.
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