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BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH liquid fuels expected to remain the main energy source for transport for the foreseeable future, despite the continuing bad press about their carbon footprint, biofuels – especially second generation fuels based on waste – are still recognised as a useful means of lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IT is easy to think of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a more or less total rip-off when you read that a majority of the 27 member countries were asked to pay back some Euro EUR578 million of farm subsidies provided by the European Commission in 2010 (the last year for which figures are available) because of irregularities in spending, including lack of adequate control.…

BY MARK ROWE

THERE is a scenario that environmentalists, climate change experts and the renewable oils industry have quietly dreaded for some time: what if – as you painstakingly push for a shift away from fossil fuels – another source of fossil fuels, a new kid on the carbon block, fronts up?…

BY WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI

WHILE China is desperately in need of nurses – 1.9 million to be exact, according to the nation’s ministry of health – the opportunities for overseas healthcare providers who are not ethnically Chinese are limited, as the government requires all nurses working in China to be able to pass a national test in Mandarin.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

OFFSHORE wind energy has moved with astonishing speed from being little more than an environmentalist’s dream a few years ago to a vast industry set to provide 4% of Europe’s electricity by 2020 with commensurate growth in jobs, associated industries and port development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered that four chemicals used by the plastics industry be tightly controlled over health concerns. Brussels has said that in future companies wanting to use or sell them in the European Union (EU) must secure special permission from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, IN BRUSSELS

‘CELEBRITY’ fragrances have become such a huge industry that even the Pope now has his own eau de cologne – according to Italian perfumer Silvana Casoli, (whose clients include Madonna and the King of Spain), this unique blend reflects the German pontiff’s love of Bavarian forests and their flora and fauna, creating an aura of "peace and tranquility".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DEMAND for chromium could receive a boost from European Union (EU)-funded research that has used nanotechnology to help fix chrome finishes onto plastic materials to make auto parts look classy, while reducing vehicle weight, has been hailed as a success.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SWEDISH government plans to tighten limits on the amount of cadmium allowed in fertilisers spread on Sweden’s farms have run into criticism from the European Union’s (EU) scientific committee on health and environmental risks. It had been asked by the European Commission to assess the proposed rule change reducing the maximum cadmium content of mineral phosphate fertilisers in Sweden from 100 mg Cd/kg P to 46 mg Cd/kg P.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered that six chemicals used by the paint and coatings industry must be subject to special controls because of health concerns. Brussels has said that in future companies wanting to use or sell them in the European Union (EU) must secure special permission from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).…