Search Results for: Environmental health

KEITH NUTHALL
WATER companies may be able to help the European Union and its Member States improve standards in the sector within developing countries, as part of an initiative to be launched by Brussels at the oncoming World Summit on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, this August and September.…

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.…

Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union moves towards the mandatory application of International Accounting Standards for listed companies, the European Commission has proposed reforms to the existing directives that harmonise national accounting laws that will remain in place for other businesses.…

BY RICHARD HURST
AN OIL spill response team and contingency plan has been drawn up for Port Elizabeth, South Africa, by the National Ports Authority of South Africa, under its recently launched Corporate Environmental Policy, focusing on pollution prevention.…

BY MARK ROWE
THERE is clearly something wrong with a law that allows a rare snake from Costa Rica to be sold in a church hall or for a reptile to be kept in a garage on a housing estate. But Britain’s animal welfare laws are, by the common agreement of just about every interested party, out-dated, confusing and, crucially, can actually cause more harm than good to animals.…

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.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
SOME 12 million tonnes of scrap metal – mainly steel – are expected to enter global markets this decade as redundant nuclear power stations are closed down worldwide; in Europe, there is likely to be a surge from 2003 onwards, via a closure programme for obsolete plants in the eastern European countries applying to join the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FUTURE Harvest Centres, a network of global food and environmental research organisations, has launched a new online search tool in Rome allowing users to search the rich reserves of online material about harvest performance worldwide. *More information: http://infofinder.cgiar.org…

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.…

Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union moves towards the mandatory application of International Accounting Standards for listed companies, the European Commission has proposed reforms to the existing directives that harmonise national accounting laws that will remain in place for other businesses.…