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Lexis®PSL Environment weekly highlights—24 November 2016

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Published on: 24 November 2016

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Welcome to the weekly highlights from the Lexis®PSL Environment team for the week ending 24 November 2016. This week’s highlights includes feature articles relating to the 2017 REACH review and environmental issues arising from the Autumn Statement. We also include news items relating to air pollution, evaluation of EU legislation on plant protection, a Cefic press release relating to two recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) cases concerning protection of confidential business information, an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) policy paper on combating climate change with market mechanisms, UK ratification of the Paris agreement and a Carbon Trust survey on energy use. We also include updates on the Capacity market and Feed-in-Tariffs (FITs), proposals for new hazardous substance exemptions under RoHS, Committee on Climate Change (CCC) concern over the third runway at Heathrow, sentence of a managing director after a waste fire and a consultation on Ofwat guidance relating to competition law in the water and wastewater sector. In addition we cover relevant updates from...

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