Environment

I wanted to share a FH Briefing on the outlook for Europe’s Environment Committee. There will be a lot of old and influential faces not coming back to the 8th European Parliament. But, thoughts that the larger eurosceptic and anti-European Parties will somehow have greater influence are too exaggerated.   The 8th EP_Results and analysis_ENVIfinal

Environment Commissioner, Janez Potočnik, is an ambitious and tenacious man. In the dying days of this Commission, he is trying to push out perhaps his most ambitious law to date and overhaul Europe’s Waste law. One of the last acts of his fellow Commissioners will be to back a call to effectively ban the landfill … Read more

  The lifeline to Europe’s biofuel industry of state subsidies is about to end. Last Wednesday commissioners backed new environmental state aid guidelines that will ban state subsidies for Europe’s first generation biofuel production. Instead taxpayers money will only be allowed for  second-generation biofuels. The detailed guidelines can be found here. This can come up no surprise since … Read more

  How Much Do Chemical Bans Really Cost Yesterday ECHA produced a report entitled “Estimating the abatement costs of hazardous chemicals. A review of the results of six case studies”. The report looks at how to work out the cost of the substitution of hazardous chemicals. The costs of substituting one chemical for another are … Read more