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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CHINESE government launched unprecedented traffic restrictions in Beijing to tame the city’s notorious air pollution ahead of August’s Olympic Games. It has banned half of the city’s 3.3 million cars from its streets for two months from July 20.…

BY MARK ROWE

LAST month Modern Power Systems examined the workings of the pan-European ‘Energy Community’, which extends EU energy law eastwards to the membership hopefuls and encourages the region’s electricity transmission system operators and regulators to establish the cooperation and energy trading agreements and mechanisms by end of 2009.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT would seem even the worst man-made ecological disasters can be reversed: the northern Aral Sea – once a shallow saline remnant of its former self, surrounded by dust bowls – is now growing again, boosting fish production and improving the weather.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ECONOMICS and technical specialists at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have launched a long term research project comparatively analysing the storage of nuclear waste and carbon dioxide. The aim is sparking new discoveries and interpretations of storage techniques for both wastes.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, JAMES BURNS, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and PHILIPPA JONES

"IT is better to be beautiful than to be good," wrote Oscar Wilde in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. Many cosmetics and personal care companies worldwide may still believe this statement to be true, but being, or at least claiming to be, "good" has become an essential part of the sector’s public image.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, ALAN OSBORN and GAVIN BLAIR

EARTHQUAKES spell potential disasters for mining companies. Not only do they pose obvious safety risks, but the danger that a serious earth tremor could destroy or weaken environmental protection measures put in place at mine sites are significant.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

SUSTAINABILITY has moved firmly to the top of the corporate agenda in the oils and fats sector following Unilever’s announcement in May that it intended to have all of its palm oil certified sustainable by 2015. By any measure this would be a bold pledge but coming from the world’s largest consumer of palm oil (Unilever takes 4% of total global production to make its food and cosmetic products) it serves additionally to raise the bar for others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPANY importing quality cigars from Nicaragua has been launched in Toronto, Canada. Former investment bank researcher Markus Raty has become president of Mombacho Cigars, which is backed by the president of independent beer-maker Steam Whistle Breweries Co – Cameron Heaps.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

California has struck an important blow against the use of trans fats by becoming the first state to ban the use of the fats in restaurants. Trans fats are created through "partial hydrogenation" which means pumping hydrogen into liquid oil at high temperature, resulting in an inexpensive fat that prolongs the shelf life and appearance of packaged foods and which is said to give food greater flavour.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONCERNS have been raised that some chemicals of importance to the clothing and textile industry will not have been pre-registered by the oncoming December 1 deadline of the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control programme. Omissions could damage the business of manufacturers, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has warned: "Failure to meet this deadline means that a company cannot continue manufacturing or importing the substance until they have submitted a full registration dossier and paid the registration fee", an expensive and time consuming task.…