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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPREHENSIVE environmental assessment of oil-production impacted sites is being undertaken in Nigeria’s Niger Delta by the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Development Programme. This follows a request by the Nigerian government peace initiative in Ogoniland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) should not only increase the waste electrical equipment it collects for recycling and salvage, it should prioritise collecting items posing dangerous environmental problems, a UN report has claimed. Written for the European Commission, the United Nations University (UNU)-led study concluded only 25% of Europe’s medium-sized household appliances and 40% of larger appliances are collected for salvage and recycling, leaving "substantial room for improvement."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ENVIRONMENTAL health officers may think there are a lot of smokers in the UK – in 2005, 24% of adults aged 16 or over in Britain smoked cigarettes, but spare a thought for officials in Greece – home of Europe’s keenest smokers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

RESEARCHERS from the University College London and the US Environmental Protection Agency have found that over the last 20 years, lakes and streams in the UK, southern Scandinavia and eastern North America have been stained brown by dissolved organic matter, indicating a return to a more natural, pre-industrial state following a decline in acid rain levels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PROGRESS has been made in debates over the European Commission’s proposed reforms of the European Union (EU) wine market, with member states accepting special national aid budgets for the industry, called ‘envelopes’. Recent Council of Ministers minutes show "most delegations" accepted these, and that their money could be used for restructuring and converting vineyards; promoting new production techniques; sales pushes within and outside the EU; plus environmental improvements, including ‘green harvesting’.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing

CHINESE coatings made the headlines for all the wrong reasons this summer. Faulty paint jobs on Chinese exports has however put into sharp relief the quality gap between local and foreign players in China’s paint and coating sector, which has been enjoying unprecedented growth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HUMAN nature’s tendency to let sleeping dogs lie means that international initiatives to deal with chronic problems often only come to fruition after a major disaster. And such was the case with the formation of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEED to limit particulate matter in Britain and continental western Europe has been underlined by the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) latest assessment of pollution in Europe. In its fourth annual environmental health check of Europe, central Asia and Asiatic Russia, the agency concluded that much of western, central and south east Europe, especially urban areas, "experience daily average PM10 concentrations in excess of 50 ?g/m3…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has welcomed a cooperation agreement struck between the British and Irish governments to prevent illegal waste shipments across the land border between their two countries. Brussels was threatening legal action over the problem, because it broke European Union (EU) waste shipment rules, but with London and Dublin combining their forces, and tougher waste regulations being approved for Northern Ireland, the Commission has been satisfied.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening legal action against the British government for allegedly failing to comply with a 2006 European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that it tighten national rules demanding environmental impact assessments of urban development projects.…