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BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN

IN the early 1990s the nuclear power industry faced a bleak outlook. High profile accidents such as in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in, Pennsylvania, the USA, had raised public concern about the safety of the industry to all time high.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE PRINCIPLE of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is of course well established amongst energy suppliers: polluting industries, such as coal, would be able to continue to burn fossil fuels, but carbon dioxide, rather than being expelled into the atmosphere, would be harvested in the energy production cycle and securely locked away.…

BY MARK ROWE

BY the end of 2010, according to Britain’s Institute of Nanotechnology, nano elements will be incorporated in Euro 16.4 billion’s worth of annual food production across the world. This is likely to mean more work for environmental health officers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IF the number of notifications received by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) for pre-registering the use of chemicals by businesses making or importing chemicals in Europe is a gauge of success, then the new REACH control system is performing with aplomb.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is a complex set of institutions and so it will not surprise European auto executives that the EU response to the financial threat they face has been anything but simple. It is so much simpler in the US of course: there the federal government can actually talk about bail-outs, without looking over its shoulder at critics from abroad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GIVEN the preoccupation of the auto industry these trying days to merely survive past the next quarter, it is refreshing to learn of an international project dealing with the environmental effects of a road transport sector actually projected to grow and grow in the long term, as the developing world gets richer and more mobile.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AT time when the world’s governments are trying to stem losses to complex financial frauds, another international initiative is tackling another slippery customer – illegal fishing. Keith Nuthall reports.

FAR from the prying eyes of police and customs officers, the breaking of international and national fishing laws and regulations happens every day.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded study confirmed the major differences between industry, governments and environmentalists over nanotechnology. This ‘mapping study on regulation and governance of nanotechnologies’ involving Britain’s Institute of nanotechnology, the Innovation Society, Switzerland, and others, showed environmental and consumer groups wanting probes into nanosafety and a "strict precautionary approach".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GROUNDBREAKING starter motor-alternator, enabling cars to automatically and smoothly stop and start when in congested traffic, has been developed by European companies involved in the Eureka research network. The i-StARS (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT) project, coordinated by France’s Valeo Electrical Systems, spent Euro 9.85 million on developing this second-generation technology, whose aim is to create significant environmental improvements to auto performance without forcing car makers to make radical changes to engine design.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has laid down policy for the review of the European Union’s (EU) auto sector block exemption from standard European competition rules. Importantly, she has given a "cast-iron guarantee" that a new system would guarantee the rights of independent repairers to "access to technical information and alternative brands of spare parts."…