EU LAUNCHES COMPREHENSIVE POLLUTION DATABASE
September 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published an inventory of potential European Union (EU) pollution from non-industrial sources - such as cars, aeroplanes, ships and household appliances - as a first step towards creating a comprehensive detailed emissions database. Brussels wants to help environmental policy-makers develop better targeted proposals, which have been stymied in the past by non-industrial pollution estimates, which are notoriosly tough to measure accurately because they come from a huge number of sources. EU environment Commissioner ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.