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US CAR RECYCLING SIDE BAR
BY PHILIP FINE
DESPITE 10.5 million vehicles reaching the end of their useful lives each year in the United States, the country has enacted no federal laws concerning car recycling. There have, however, been new binding rules emerging at state level.…
US PIPELINE
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERCIAN companies are to begin building two natural gas pipelines this month (June, 2002). Northwest Pipeline Corporation is spending US$75.2 million on facilities in Washington State, while Kern River Gas Transmission Company will be building and eventually operating a US$28.9 million California pipeline.…
ETHANOL - EPA
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICA’S Environmental Protection Agency says that US ethanol producers may be violating the country’s Clean Air Act. In a letter to the industry, the EPA said "most, if not all" US ethanol producing plants are releasing volatile organic compounds into the air.…
WEST VIRGINIA
BY PHILIP FINE
The US National Mining Association is predicting that over the next five years, more than 15,000 mining jobs will be lost in West Virginia after a recent court decision that centred around a single definition of "fill material," whose disposal will henceforth only be permitted for projects mainly concerned with construction.…
ASSOCIATION MERGER
BY PHILIP FINE
THE USA’S National Association of Beverage Retailers and the National Licensed Beverage Association are merging their two organisations on July 1, 2002. The combined association will be known as the American Beverage Licensees (ABL). Currently, the NLBA represents over 14,000 bars, restaurants, taverns, and alcoholic drinks stores across the country, while the NABR represents approximately 14,000 retailers.…
MERCURY LAWS
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US state of Maine recently passed a landmark bill that for the first
time forces automotive manufacturers to pay for the removal of mercury from
vehicles. Auto makers will now be responsible for removing and disposing of
mercury-added components, such as switches in boot and bonnet lights, before vehicles are crushed or shredded for recycling
Despite 10.5 million vehicles reaching the end of their useful lives each
year in the United States, the country has enacted no federal laws
concerning car recycling.…
HEALTH SCAM
BY PHILIP FINE
A CRACKDOWN on healthcare fraud netted the US government more than US$1.3 billion (GBPounds880 million) last year, according to recently released federal statistics. Efforts to better detect and eliminate health care fraud grew over the last five years, due, says Washington, to the establishment of its national Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program under the Clinton administration.…
METAL SCAMS
BY PHILIP FINE
IN the US, four men have been arrested after police dismantled a scheme that for at least two years secured loans of more than US$600 million (GBPounds406 million) for non-existent metal-trading deals.
According to American prosecutors, the men secured loans by using shell companies but their plan broke down when some of the nine banks involved discovered that the defendants’ customers stopped making loan payments simultaneously.…
BELUGA CANCER
BY PHILIP FINE, in Quebec City
BELUGA whales in Quebec’s St. Lawrence River have the highest cancer rates of any wild animal in the world, according to a researcher looking at 17 years of deaths among the white-backed cetaceans. Université de Montréal Professor Daniel Martineau studied carcasses of 129 belugas and, among his adult subjects, recorded a 27 per cent rate of cancer.…
TRADEMARK EXHAUSTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TRADER selling goods within the European Union, should not shoulder the entire burden of proof to demonstrate that a particular trademark has been ‘exhausted’ under EU regulations, a European Court of Justice advocate general has advised. Exhaustion allows traders to sell branded goods freely throughout the EU, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein, when they were first sold in these markets, but not if they were originally sold elsewhere.…