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BY KEITH NUTHALL
The first report of the new European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) which was created earlier this year says that in Europe “a high proportion of industrial pollution is caused by a few single plants.” The report, which initially covers emissions in the 15 EU countries, Norway and Hungary in the year 2001, is soon to be upgraded to a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register which will significantly widen the range of pollutants, industries and emissions, will report every year instead of every third one and will take data from road traffic, aviation, shipping and agriculture as well as industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENETICALLY modified (GM) grass pollen has been blown up to 21 kilometres before pollinating other grasses, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found. This contamination zone is much wider than previously measured. The research focused on an experimental herbicide-resistant variety of GM creeping bentgrass, used on golf greens.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has issued revamped guidelines on cleansing drinking water supplies desgined to help environmental health officers prevent microbial and chemical contamination worldwide. They are universal in scope, applying equally to rich and poor countries and focus on the prevention of disease and illness.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission under incoming energy Commissioner Lázló Kovács could look to Russia and the Ukraine as the key guarantors of Europe’s future gas and oil supplies. Kovács, a Hungarian, has told the European Parliament that he intends to establish “real cooperation” with these countries as a first priority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GM grass pollen has been blown up to 21 kilometres before pollinating other grasses, the US Environmental Protection Agency has found, much further than previously measured.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Environment ministers of the 25 EU countries have reached “political agreement” on a directive aimed at minimising the environmental effects of waste from mining and quarrying which the EU said could constitute “a serious and long-lasting threat to the environment and human health if not properly managed.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IMPACT of industry, transport and fires on atmospheric pollution has been made graphically clear by a set of global images from European Space Agency environmental satellite Envisat. The largest of its kind in the world, Envisat has produced a map of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution, showing Britain as a hotspot for this lung damaging gas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RIGHT of companies to export waste around the European Union (EU) for storage in disused mines has been strengthened by the European Court of Justice. Judges said a Belgian environmental regulator should not have independently redesignated as waste for disposal salt residues Siomab SA wanted to bury in salt mines at Teutschenthal, Germany.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend the Erdemir Group’s Erdemir and Isdemir Iron & Steel Works. Co. up to Euro 200 million to convert, modernise and expand the Turkish company’s production capacity at its Eregli and Iskenderum plants.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
STAVROS Dimas, the next EU Commissioner for Environmental Affairs, was criticised as one of the weaker cards in the Barroso Commission pack when he appeared before a European Parliament hearing last week.

There was cross-party sentiment that the former Greek Industry Minister did not have sufficient experience of environmental matters.…