Search Results for: Environmental Health⊂mit=Search
10 results out of 3960 results found for 'Environmental Health⊂mit=Search'.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PETITIONS COMMITTEE CONCERN OVER NORD STREAM PIPELINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ENVIRONMENTAL impact of the proposed Russia-to-Germany Baltic Sea pipeline should be "carefully investigated" and alternative overland routes considered first, the European Parliament petitions committee has said. Responding to concerns of Polish and Lithuanian environmentalists, the committee concluded if an undersea Nord Stream pipeline did pose real and serious environmental risk, EU institutions and member states should "use every legal means" to prevent its construction.…
EU MINISTERS AND MEPS STRIKE DEAL OVER ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME LAW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DELIBERATE and negligent potentially harmful release of radioactive material is among a list of environmental misdemeanours to become crimes in all 27 member states of the European Union (EU), following agreement over a new EU law. This directive on environmental crime – agreed by the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers – tells all EU countries to ensure a wide range of misdeeds damaging the environment are listed as crimes, not civil offences.…
EU COMMISSION DROPS PLANS TO LIMIT PASSENGER CABIN BAGGAGE SIZE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has dropped security plans to limit the maximum permitted size of cabin baggage on planes operating within the European Union (EU) to 56 cm x 45 cm x 25 cm. Following a detailed assessment, newly appointed EU justice Commissioner Jacques Barrot has announced: "The inconvenience of additional limits would outweigh the advance in security."…
VIRTUAL WORLD SECOND LIFE PROVING A FLOP WITH CLOTHING BRANDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BACK in 2006, the buzz in Internet marketing was about virtual worlds, and how clothing and other companies could use them to raise profile and generate additional sales. The dominant version of this technological platform was – and is – Second Life (SL), an interactive online world, which computer users explore online through the eyes of a digital representation of themselves (or indeed someone completely different) using simple cursor-based controls.…
GROWTH IN NUCLEAR ENERGY IS UNSPOKEN KEY TO SQUARING POWER SECURITY-GLOBAL WARMING CIRCLE
BY ALAN OSBORN
HOW quickly events are moving in the energy sector at present, and how difficult this makes long-term planning by the power generation industry. One of the key documents for forecasters in Europe is the paper prepared by the National Technical University of Athens for the European Commission’s directorate-general for energy and transport on "Trends to 2030."…
EU MINISTERS AND MEPS STRIKE DEAL OVER ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME LAW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) paint and coatings companies must take additional care they are not breaching pollution and health laws in future after the agreement of an EU directive criminalising all serious environmental offences. The law insists a number of wrongful actions be punished by "effective, proportionate and dissuasive" criminal penalties.…
SOMETIMES WHATEVER THE POLLUTION, A DROP OF SUNSHINE OR OLIVE OIL KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL health officers think they are helping keep people fit and well by reducing pollution and food disease. But maybe the best move the cold, rheumatism and asthma sufferers of Britain can make to be healthy is emigrate to a Greek island, sunbathe (moderately) and eat fish, vegetables and olive oil.…
NEW TECHNOLOGY WILL NOT LET UTILITIES OFF THE HOOK IN REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
BY ANDREW CAVE
SCARCELY a week goes by without volumes of newsprint or prime broadcasting slots being devoted to new and ingenious ways of mitigating climate change.
Global warming is now widely regarded the single most important issue the world faces, so it is no surprise that it is exercising the minds of the world’s most creative scientists.…
COMMISSION ASKS EFSA TO HELP IT DECIDE FATE OF GM CROPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the scientists of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to help it decide whether genetically modified crops should be grown in the European Union (EU). It is a controversial topic, and the EU has routinely blocked all such market approval applications for the past 10 years on environmental grounds.…
EUROPEAN NANOTECHNOLOGY HEALTH WATCHDOG TO BE ESTABLISHED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Observatory on Nanotechnologies – charged with predicting and detecting the potential environmental health problems caused by the increasing use of nanoparticles in consumer products – is to be created. Coordinated by the Institute of Nanotechnology in Glasgow, Scotland, the new European body will receive Euro 4 million in funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme research budget and will involve 17 EU organisations with expertise in the field.…