Search Results for: Environmental Health

BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN tobacco farmers have a launched a pre-emptive strike against the European Commission to preserve the present system of subsidies and marketing in the face of growing pressure from health groups and others to end the regime.

Brussels has been charged by the EU Council of Ministers with drawing up a report on tobacco-growing in the EU this year.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US House of Representatives has put Alaska drilling back into its

latest energy bill while, on the other side of Congress, the Senate has

backed away from the contentious issue. Last month, a majority of House

members defeated a series of amendments that would have exempted the Arctic

National Wildlife Refuge from the bill.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOW the arguing is over and the dye has been cast, it is time to start work on the practicalities of admitting 10 new countries to the European Union, making this long discussed enlargement work for British and western European farmers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL imaging from the European Space Agency’s ERS-2 satellite helped Swedish, German and Danish oil containment ships scoop up the bulk of an oil slick released from a sunken Chinese freighter that threatened the southern coast of Sweden this month.(June)…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ESTABLISHMENT of a European Union Advisory Committee on Safety, Hygiene and Health Protection at Work has been approved; it will help the European Commission prepare health and safety initiatives and boost cooperation between national health and safety administrations, trade unions and employers’ organisations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from a consortium of high ranking European research teams has predicted that the world’s efforts to prevent greenhouse gas emissions are doomed to failure, even while the European Commission strives to force EU Member States to abide by their Kyoto Protocol commitments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has warned that Europe’s water resources are being put under threat by unsustainable economic practices, and although “only a few” European citizens suffer from “devastating shortages,” drinking water quality is a concern throughout Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SENIOR European Commission official has hit back at calls by environmental groups that the ongoing review of the European Union’s treaties should lead to the abolition of special commitments supporting nuclear power.

Instead, said François Lamoureux, Commission director-general for energy and transport, the 1957 Euratom treaty’s main provisions should be preserved in any reforms proposed this summer by the European Convention, the review body tasked with renewing the EU’s administrative structure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ITALIAN conservation group has teamed up with the European Space Agency to collate satellite data of water pollution, in a bid to influence national government policies on land use and urbanisation. The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) Italia is concerned about environmental damage being caused at overdeveloped “hot spots,” especially on the coast.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEADS of government at the recent G8 summit in France have committed their countries to reducing the environmental threat posed by oil tankers. A communiqué committed their governments to accelerate the introduction of a safety code for flag states, establish mandatory pilotage in narrow, restricted or congested waters, improve inspections and other measures.…