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BY KEITH NUTHALL and DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

THE TOUGH fight facing the European Union (EU) auto industry to keep technically achievable, proposals for mandatory caps on CO2 emissions has become clearer this week. The European Parliament yesterday started debating proposed legislation to force carmakers to cut CO2 emissions from new models to an average of 130 grams per kilometer across the fleet by 2012, of which 120 grams per kilometer must be through improved engine technology.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

DIFFERENT parts of the world have devised a wide range of regulations to promote biofuels as an answer to traditional fuels posed by supply and environmental concerns. Japan began promoting alternative fuels in the mid-70s following the oil crisis, replacing oil-powered electric generators with units driven by alternative fuels, as well as natural gas, coal and nuclear power.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation (IMO) specialists have raised environmental concerns about proposals to dump tons of fine iron particles in the sea, to grow algal blooms consuming carbon dioxide. Because these microscopic organisms would also eat the iron, when they die, the mineral’s weight would sink them to the ocean depths, taking the CO2 with them.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

THE DEVELOPMENT of biofuels and their impact on food crops has generated debate since Germany’s Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil in 1894.
However, now a biofuels boom is moving global markets and one result is commodity crop price inflation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has told the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to investigate the risks ob using nanotechnology in food packaging and food amidst growing concern about potential health risks. These were raised earlier this year by the European Union’s scientific committee on emerging and newly identified health risks, which warned current risk assessment systems for chemicals were not appropriate for nanoparticles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOR the best way of showing the relevance of the International organisation for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE: ISO USES AMERICAN SPELLING FOR ITS NAME) to the recycling industry, look no further than the globally recognised symbol for the sector – the Möbius loop.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE PLASTICS industry is currently faced with a wave of European Union (EU) legislation in different stages of enactment and implementation that will impact on its operations and sales. One particularly important and long-debated law is the new and comprehensive waste directive that is now approaching a final phase in the EU decision-taking process, and could be in force within a year from now.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT could be said that preparation, preparation and preparation is the best way to deal with the European Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH, and maybe this is truer for the oil and gas industry than any other, because it is based on, well….preparations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT could be said that preparation, preparation and preparation is the best way to deal with the European Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH, and maybe this is truer for the oil and gas industry than any other, because it is based on, well….preparations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE OIL and gas sector was always a global business, and with world trade increasing and new reserves being opened up in all continents and oceans, it is becoming ever more international. As a result, the need for common standards and practices, relevant to the industry, its suppliers and its customers is becoming increasingly important.…