BRUSSELS ASSESSMENT SAYS POLLUTION EMISSIONS ARE FALLING
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE LONG-TERM trend on the emission of some industrial pollutants is positive, says a detailed study of environmental data released by the European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA). Its second European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) review says that about two-thirds of the 50 air and water industrial pollutants have been decreasing, considering data collected in 2004 from 12,000 facilities in the 25 EU member states of that year and Norway. Analysts have since pored over the data and have now concluded that nitrogen and ...
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