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BY DEIRDRE MASON
RESPONSIBLE Care as a concept has been a touchstone of the paint industry for many years, but it should in the coming months prove its worth in the UK and continental Europe. As is often the case with environmental legislation impacting on the paint and coatings industry, an important driver is the European Union (EU), which has approved a raft of directives that come into effect either this year or shortly afterwards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has reported that a paint industry chemical pollutant has been discovered in Arctic plants and animals, reaching the Arctic via air and water flows. The paint component PFOS – perfluorooctane sulfonate – said the EEA report ‘Arctic Environment: European perspectives’ has a “chemical structure…similar to other persistent organic compounds.”…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN ORGANISATION representing 50,000 environmental health professionals in the USA is calling for a moratorium on opening what it calls Concentrated Animal Feed Operations (CAFOs) – factory farms – alleging they spread disease.

The American Public Health Association (APHA) has cited a number of problems with ‘CAFOs’, including drinking water contamination from animal waste runoff, growing antibiotic resistance resulting from antibiotics routinely fed to animals, severe respiratory problems in factory farm workers and – crucially – illnesses among people living near CAFO operations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is considering plans to lend Belgian steel producer Arcelor Euro 125 million, to invest in a new stainless steel meltshop in Charleroi, including an electric furnace, an argon oxygen decarbonisation converter and a continuous slab casting installation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN ONLINE database of information on how pathogenic bacteria respond to different environmental conditions in food has been established by Britain’s Institute of Food Research and the Eastern Regional Research Centre’s Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, in the United States.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A STRATEGY to develop a healthier urban environment in the 25 countries of the European Union, once it expands eastwards in May, has been proposed by the European Commission, which says that pollution, noise, heavy traffic and many other environmental problems are concentrated in the 500 largest towns and cities – those with a population of 100,000 or more.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK of millions of tonnes of uranium mining waste being swept by a landslide into a populous central Asian river basin has prompted the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to redouble its efforts to prevent such a tragedy.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could see its financial resources shrink under the recent Bush Administration annual draft budget. If Congress passes the proposal currently being discussed, total federal investments in environmental protection would decrease by US$1.9 billion (GBPounds 920 million) or nearly six per cent, claims pressure group Environmental Media Services (EMS).…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE WORLD Bank and the Nordic Development Fund have announced that they will be donating US$52 million to Zambia to tackle environmental problems associated with its copper and cobalt mines. Ohene Nyanin, World Bank country manager in Zambia said that the funds would be used to strengthen existing regulatory and institutional frameworks to improve mine compliance with environmental guidelines.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has further signalled its determination to use its vast financial resources in improving the environmental performance of eastern European power sectors, via the announcement of two large loans, in Bulgaria and the Ukraine.…