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BY KEITH NUTHALL

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigner Greenpeace has used UK Freedom of Information legislation to extract documents from the British Foreign Office to campaign against Arctic oil exploration. It revealed documents warning a Gulf of Mexico-type spill could seriously damage the Arctic because "lower temperatures and…lack of sunlight…[would] inhibit oil eating bacteria…"

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BY LEE ADENDORFF

ITALIANS have voted overwhelmingly against a return to nuclear power, repealing regulation that allowed for the construction of new reactors in a national referendum held on Sunday and Monday. On the nuclear question 54.79% of citizens responded, and 94.05% of these voted against the reconstruction of nuclear reactors in Italy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the global digital content marketplace continues to evolve rapidly, communications service providers (CSPs) have been increasingly losing revenue to third party content providers. For years now, entertainment and broadcasting companies, search engines and more have been harming CSP’s revenue streams and brand value.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

EARLIER this year the search of the house of a notorious octogenarian loan shark in Naples made headlines in Italy. The news was given particular attention not because of the elderly gentleman’s reputation as one of the city’s most prominent usurers, but because of the amount of money investigators found hidden in his home: over Euro EUR5 million (US dollars USD7.15 million) in cash stashed behind tiles and false walls together with hundreds of thousands of Euros in debtor cheques.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Commission review of the 2004 paints directive has led to Brussels concluding it will not propose expanding the products covered by its volatile organic compounds (VOC) emission limits or tightening them for vehicle refinishing products. Both topics were subjects of a mandatory assessment by Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project is about to start developing a prototype zinc-polymer car battery, which its scientists hope will be significantly lighter, safer and more environment-friendly than existing batteries. These are of course based on lead acid, lithium and nickel – all carrying problems associated with waste disposal, weight and chemical stability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have said Europe’s top scientists should be part of a review of the EU’s water policy, which will yield a new blueprint in summer 2012, designed to safeguard Europe’s threatened drinking water resources.

In detailed guidance to the European Commission, which is drafting this document, the EU Council of Ministers has stated there is a "need for improving the interface between science and policy to enhance evidence-based decision-making…"

It also called for more EU spending on water research projects in the next EU framework programme for research, which will spend billions of Euros from 2014 to 2020, and whose priorities are now under consideration.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

A NEW European Commission proposal on energy efficiency and saving may have the basic ingredients of a new, potential approach for helping the European Union (EU) to achieve its 2020 emission-reduction objectives – getting utilities to share the pain with consumers, who have been the focus of earlier EU efforts in this regard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Chemical Secretariat – a global environmental watchdog – has added petrol additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) to its ‘SIN’ list of toxic substances. Its aim is to "put pressure on legislators to move forward with speed and urgency" in controlling the chemical, which the secretariat says is an endocrine disrupter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Chemical Secretariat – a global environmental watchdog – has added 22 chemicals to its ‘SIN’ list of toxic substances – all are endocrine disrupters identified as potentially harmful under European Union (EU) chemical control system REACH.…