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BY MONICA DOBIE, in Las Vegas

LOCAL authorities in the UK are dipping their toes into the waters of improved environmental health in pubs and restaurants by publicising results of inspections in local papers. And for inspiration on tactics, they could do no better than look at the United States, where EHOs have named and shamed dirty restaurateurs for decades.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend US$5 million to the Armenia Copper Programme, to help this metal producer improve its environmental performance. The money would help fund the installation of a wet-scrubbing process for the off-gases of the client’s furnace and converters, reducing the sulphur dioxide (SO2) content in those gases.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

By many measures, the Dutch are the world leaders in paint and coatings which is not quite the same as saying they’re the largest suppliers or that Dutch paints are the best known though they do come at or near the top in both categories.…

BY MARK ROWE

AS the debate about renewing nuclear power stations resonates throughout the UK, it can be easy to overlook the fact that nuclear engineering has important implications for research into environmental health. One of the key locations for this process is Europe’s leading civil nuclear research laboratory, the Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU), in Karlsruhe, Germany.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GREATER Manchester’s delayed 25-year mega-contract to boost its recycling performance in waste management is likely to receive a financial safety net from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA) is tendering a GBPounds 2.5 billion contract to outsource its services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN UNLIKELY alliance is forming in response to the European Commission’s plans to increase the use of biomass in Europe’s energy mix: the European timber industry and environmentalists.

Normally at loggerheads, if you excuse the pun, the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) and the Worldwide Find for Nature (WWF) have combined forces to recommend that the energy sector’s exploitation of biomass grow in a sustainable way

After all both sides have crucial interests at stake: CEPI is worried about demand for timber and wood waste rising so fast that not only do prices increase sharply, but that the simple availability of forest products is put at risk; the WWF is concerned about the dash to biomass uprooting ecosystems in its wake, encouraging logging in a continent which seemed to have reached some kind of equilibrium between nature conservation and forest clearance.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

AS befits its wider membership and longer history, Interpol is better known internationally than Europol though it has fewer staff and a smaller budget. But the similarities between the two organisations are more important than the differences. Neither is a hands-on police force.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

WITH the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the midst of an unprecedented construction boom, the paint sector is flourishing with contracts of up to half a million dollars underway, 200% growth in fire-resistance paints, and over 16% growth predicted for the sector as a whole this year.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission has missed a second deadline for adoption of its long-awaited plan for energy saving in the 25-member European Union (EU), triggering suspicions that Brussels is turning lukewarm on the policy. Energy spokesman Ferran Taradellas told Utility Week that "the policy is certainly not being abandoned", adding there could be an announcement "within a few days" (ie in early October) about the plan, which would aim to curb EU energy consumption by 20% by 2020.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

OIL and gas companies working in the Caspian Sea will have to comply with a new environmental treaty from August 12, the first legally binding agreement signed by all five coastal states. Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan and companies working within them will henceforth have to follow the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea.…