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Global Environment Newsletter - Summer 2014 Edition
10 September 2014
Welcome to the Summer edition of our Global Environment Newsletter. This issue covers the following topics:
- Europe: A new accelerated consenting process for energy network infrastructure.
- Australia: Repeal of the Carbon "Tax" – what's next? Measures to force business to pass on savings from the repeal to customers are likely to be followed by creation of a new Emissions Reduction Fund.
- Belgium: New controls on the operation of office building car parks in Brussels. The Brussels Code on Air, Climate and Energy Management imposes stringent maximum capacity thresholds for the car parks of new and existing office buildings.
- The Netherlands: Next stage in Environmental Permitting Consolidation.
- Spain: Constitutional Court removes regional legislative barriers to fracking in Spain.
- UK: New Water Act passed. The Act focuses on encouraging long term water supply resilience and allowing water abstraction to be brought into the "one-stop shop" environmental permitting regime.
- USA: Divided Supreme Court strikes down part of Environmental Protection Agency's Greenhouse Gas Regulations for Stationary Sources.
