Lexis®PSL Environment weekly highlights—12 January 2017

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Welcome to the weekly highlights from the Lexis®PSL Environment team for the week ending 12 January 2017. This week’s highlights includes feature articles relating to the increasing impact of environmental crime, a recent landfill tax case relaxing to whether tax is payable on biodegradable material used to generate methane, and policy predictions and challenges for 2017. We also include news items relating to safeguard of the Green Investment Banks’s green purposes in any sale, a chemical safety investigation launched by the European Chemicals Agency, concerns over inclusion of shipping in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, an updated form to appeal environmental permit applications, updated guidance for Councils on home energy efficiency reports, publication of the EU environmental programme for 2017, and a report from the World Nuclear Association concluding that capital costs are vital to nuclear competitiveness. We also cover items on wind overtaking coal in UK electricity generation, launch of ten low emissions bus zones in London and further funding for low and zero emissions...