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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union environment Commissioner Margot Wallström has revealed that the European Commission will later this year propose rules regulating emissions from mobile air-conditioning, such as those in cars. The rules would be part of proposed legislation on reducing fluorinated gases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONTROVERSIAL congestion charges to be introduced in London next month look set to encourage more drivers to switch to more environmentally friendly road transport, according to a recent survey.

Car hire company Holiday Autos found that one in four drivers was considering renting an electric or hybrid vehicle to avoid having to pay Pounds 5 per day to enter the capital.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
BRITISH government backed scientists have launched a pioneering research project that could see natural plant fibres being used to manufacture car body shells. Biomat is a four-year project using various forms of flax and hemp fibre, as well as willow, and is being funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CARBON dioxide emissions from new cars sold in the European Union have declined by 10 per cent since 1995, according to a new Brussels survey. It added that last year members of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association reduced emissions by 2.5 per cent, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association 2.2 per cent and the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association 2.6 per cent.…

BY PHILIP FINE

The US insurance industry is appealing against a decision by a Florida court that gave the go-ahead for a countrywide class-action suit over rules forcing policy-holders to repair cars with generic spares. The county’s four principal insurance associations claim a successful lawsuit would contravene the jurisdictional right of each state to manage their own insurance.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON, in Newcastle, England, PHILIP FINE and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada

SPACE may be Star Trek’s final frontier, but in reality innovations used on rockets and satellites do not stay in orbit; they are often brought back to Earth where they have been used by auto-manufacturers to break their own technological boundaries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) commissioner has called on EU governments to reconsider the phasing out of nuclear energy, which he says has been approved on the basis of “the moral high ground and….of often unjustified emotions.”

Internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein (CORRECT SPELLING) said that technological advances were tackling the environmental difficulties surrounding nuclear energy and although problems still exist, “they do not justify the total phasing out of nuclear energy now carried out by a number of Member States.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE TOTAL phasing out of nuclear energy being carried out by a number of EU countries is not justified according to the EU’s internal market commissioner Frits Bolkestein (CORRECT SPELLING). In a speech headed “Nuclear energy needed more than ever” given to the Institute of Economic Affairs, London, Mr Bolkestein said nuclear energy provided the technical capacity to increase energy diversification which was needed to reduce external dependence.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A DUTCH company has won a European Business Award for the Environment for developing a green car insurance policy that it claims will help the environment, prolong the life of cars and reduce insurance premiums by five to 10 per cent.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CAR registration taxes in the European Union would be abolished and road

taxes harmonised under a batch of recommendations announced by the European

Commission. Brussels said it was also examining ways of restructuring existing vehicle taxes so as to promote environmental objectives.…