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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DESIGNERS of new coal-fired power stations are being urged to plan plants that are able to bolt-on carbon capture systems when these become widely available. The call has been made by the European Union (EU) export panel, the Fossil Fuels Forum, which is keen to secure EU energy supplies for the future.…

BY MARK ROWE

OFFICIALS in the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan have called for urgent action to tackle the country’s uranium dumps, a legacy of the country’s role in the nuclear industry of the former Soviet Union. Their call has highlighted increasing concerns about how depleted uranium is stored, at a time when the United Kingdom and other governments look set to press ahead with a new generation of nuclear power stations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for all European Union (EU) cities of more than 100,000 people to pass and implement local ‘sustainable urban management plans’ that raise environmental health standards. MEPs were commenting on a European Commission ‘thematic strategy for the urban environment’, and criticising it for not containing enough practical measures.…

BY MARK ROWE

A SERIES of products tailored for environmental health officers have been launched by the Met Office, the government-owned weather research and products service. The measures specifically look at the likelihood of the impact of rainfall in targeted areas as well as offering precise forecasting on the nature and location of impending thunderstorms.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

"REFINERY Process Outsourcing" or simply RPO is an exciting buzzword in the otherwise hard-pressed Indian petroleum industry, as the term represents newly found and highly profitable venture of operating refineries to fulfil surging international demand.…

BY MARK ROWE

GENERAL Motors is to collaborate with a leading engineering university in Italy to establish a new auto research center. The project is expected to play a leading role in the way in which the automobile engines of the future are designed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

THE DETAILED guts and sinews of the European Research Area have been revealed in the shape of 35 large-scale research projects that will involve the swapping and analysing of data on a major scale.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

DRAFT legislation on carbon capture and storage (CCS) now being drawn up for release by the European Commission in 2007 may allow national governments in the European Union (EU) to assume responsibility for storage sites after the injection period, given the possibility of leakage and geological degradation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) food processors using cheap imported soft fruit and cherries are facing an attack on these ingredient supplies from the European Parliament. MEPs have called for the European Commission to introduce an unusual protective duties levied where "environmental and social standards in their production [are not] corresponding to those of the European Union."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) food processors using cheap imported soft fruit and cherries are facing an attack on these supplies from the European Parliament. It has called for unusual protective duties levied where "environmental and social standards in their production [are not] corresponding to those of the European Union."…