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After more than four years of protracted negotiations that included bursts of occasional intense lobbying, the biofuels standards and subsidies saga in Europe has been settled with a compromise that allows both the industry and environmental groups to draw some satisfaction.…

The global steel industry may be entering a long-term period of sluggish growth, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development’s (OECD) steel committee has concluded at a meeting which wrapped up today (May 12).
The two-day committee meeting (May 11-12), staged at the OECD’s Paris headquarters, heard the sector’s near-term outlook will be dampened by reduced world gross domestic product (GDP) growth.…

The European Commission has launched a review of whether subsidies promoting electricity generating and distributing capacity breaks European Union (EU) state aid rules. These are designed to make sure member states do not give their industries an unfair advantage in the EU’s single market.…

Good sourcing practice at the Indonesian mill of India-based viscose fibre giant Aditya Birla has paved the way to the company’s commitment this month to a global policy to eliminate sourcing materials from ancient and endangered forests, according to the international environmental group that helped develop the policy.…

THE INDONESIAN textile industry is being put under pressure to boost its environmental performance by international non-governmental organisation (NGO) Greenpeace, which has accused sector of poisoning a major river in West Java.
WTiN.com visited elderly residents in Majalaya, a small town by the Citarum River, who say it was once clean enough to wash in.…

Supermarket chain Coop Danmark is pressing the Danish government to toughen standards required by a proposed ‘well-being’ standard and labelling scheme covering retailed meat and livestock products made with appropriate animal welfare. The system is under discussion between retailers, manufacturers and government officials.…

The latest amendment to China’s Food Safety Law passed by the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), touted by China’s government as the “toughest food safety law” in the country’s history could promote demand for meat products, imported and domestically-produced. …

Environmental authorities in the Indian state of Rajasthan are in the final stages of closing 893 fabric dying units in Sanganer, near the state capital Jaipur. “The electricity department has been instructed and their power supply will soon be disconnected,” K.C.A.…

CHINA’S upstream textile and finishing suppliers to its mighty clothing industry face a struggle to survive now its government’s ‘Water Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan’ has been released.
The State Council (cabinet) issued the plan on April 16. It aims to improve the quality of drinking water sources to a new set of standards by 2020, tightening these further by 2030.…

Deadly accidents such as the Rana Plaza disaster may have earned the Bangladesh textile and clothing sector notoriety, but there is a new generation of firms trying to erase that spot on the industry’s reputation.
Smart entrepreneurs are now courting buyers through a new sales pitch: sustainable production.…