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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a groundwater directive that lays down standards on how member states should keep such vital drinking water supplies clean. The legislation gives national governments flexibility in determining what pollutants should be tackled, however, reflecting the diversity of environmental conditions across Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is developing an information technology system that will provide real time advice to emergency services on reducing the damage from maritime disasters involving natural or man-made pollution. The DISMAR, or Data Integration System for Marine Pollution and Water Quality system is now being tested.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DETAILED environmental impact assessment of a planned gold and silver mine in Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsular suggests that 1.13 million tonnes of ore will be mined over six years by British company Trans-Siberian Gold plc. Carried out by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the assessment said that the ore was high grade, with 22.2 g/t au gold density.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCOTS may drink hard, smoke, and eat deep-fried pizzas with battered Mars bars, but obvious environmental factors do not explain why they are so prone to heart disease says a University of Edinburgh study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED studies from a series of collaborative projects on improving the groundwater aquifers of ‘Karst’ limestone coastal areas have been released by a group of scientists coordinated by Europe’s COST initiative (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical research).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRACTICAL methods by which the European Union’s (EU) textile chemical sector can live with the planned EU REACH environmental controls regime have been suggested in a new joint private-public sector report. This has been written by the so-called SPORT group, uniting the European Commission, European Union (EU) national governments, EU chemical industry federation Cefic, downstream users group DUCC and business organisations UNICE and UEAPME.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
US retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has opened an environment-friendly prototype superstore in Texas that relies on “green” technology, in an experiment in resource and energy conservation. The branch, in a Dallas suburb, sports a 120-foot tall wind turbine producing about 5% of the store’s energy and a rainwater-harvesting pond designed to provide 95% of the water needed for landscaping.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has voted to fight exemptions written into the proposed European Union (EU) directive on managing mining waste. MEPs have proposed amendments deleting changes supported by the EU Council of Ministers, for instance reducing controls of so-called ‘non-hazardous non-inert’ waste.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is consulting on the environmental, health-related and social impacts of a draft master plan for decommissioning 121 nuclear-powered submarines and ships off northwest Russia. The EBRD has been staging meetings in Moscow, Murmansk and Severodvinsk.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) scientific committee on health and environmental risks has backed warnings from national EU studies into the safety of phenol that the cosmetics ingredient is a potential mutagen. As a result, both consumers of products containing phenol and workers handling the substance need to be protected from its effects, said the committee.…