Search Results for: Environmental health

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE ROMANO Prodi-led European Commission has received a mid-term report from senior environmental groups within the European Union and it contains a mixture of bouquets and brickbats. It written by the Green 8, a coalition that includes the European Environmental Bureau, the European Federation for Transport and Environment and Friends of the Earth Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS and international organisations have highlighted tobacco smuggling as one of the largest illegal drains on their tax revenues. An international conference has brought law enforcement professionals together with health officials to fight this problem. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States Environmental Protection Agency is expected to soon reclassify the fine powder that cement companies collect in their manufacturing process as a non-hazardous waste. It says it will temporarily suspend listing cement kiln dust (CKD) as a hazardous waste under federal environmental regulations, and will wait and see if state government regulatory programmes evolve over the next three to five years as a result.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed revised European Union-wide rules for health controls on live bivalve molluscs as part of a new package of hygiene measures that are designed to step up food safety. The proposal identifies steps required by national competent health authorities to ensure the safety of these products.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Union’s LIFE-Environment programme has selected six British projects for grants under its latest allocation of 69 million euros (pounds 43 million). Altogether 109 projects in the EU countries are being supported, mostly in water resource management.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ERECTION of EU temporary protective duties on cereals from Russia and the Ukraine is being considered by the European Commission. A production boom is lowering prices on world markets, threatening the financial health of EU producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been formally criticised by the European Ombudsman, over its handling and investigation of a complaint against the Greek government by a campaigner opposing the construction of a biological treatment plant and sewerage system in a pretty coastal tourist town.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BELGIAN government has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to bring its health and safety laws in line with the 1990 Euratom directive on the operational protection of outside workers exposed to the risk of ionising radiation during their activities in controlled areas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL initiative to cleanse the polluted Barents Sea of nuclear waste has been launched, with Euro 110 million being pledged by Russia, the European Commission, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The Barents clean-up will be the first priority project of this Support Fund of the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership; the sea, to the north of Russia and Norway, is commonly known as the largest repository of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste in the world.…

KEITH NUTHALL
This is based on a feature I wrote for Geographical Magazine a couple of years ago but which I am now focusing solely on Tasmania rather than nationwide.

Tasmanian aquaculture

Matthew Brace, Sydney

Australia is sold to the world as a vast baking continent with quartzite ridges stretching to the horizon like the fossilised carcasses of fallen dinosaurs.…