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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW method of dying fabric that uses electrons instead of chemical reducing agents has been developed by a European research project, whose scientists say the process offers a “cleaner and more cost effective alternative to traditional methods of dying.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has drawn up plans to lend Austria’s SPB Industrieholding GmbH Euro 35 million to help it build a 800,000 m³ round wood saw lag capacity sawmill at Sebes in Transylvania’s Alba Iulia District, Romania.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOURISM once was regarded as a key to the developing world’s ills, allowing poor countries to make money out of their natural landscape and cultural attractions, but as with most success stories, there is a downside. In some countries, tourism has boomed so suddenly and aggressively, the development it has sparked has threatened to go out of control, spoiling the delights that lured tourists in the first place and creating a host of new environmental problems for governments to deal with.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS environmental health officers assess a hot summer that created high pollution concentrations and heat exhaustion, a new European Union directive on ground level ozone has come into force. The legislation requires EU Member States to assess ground ozone concentrations throughout their whole national territory and to inform the public of any readings above 180 ?g/m3.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FOUR US states have taken the country’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to court, claiming the federal agency has not adequately curbed the nation’s pesticide use and is harming children’s health in the process. The attorney generals of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts say the EPA is not adhering to the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act, which dictates strict limits on pesticide use and stipulates that food commonly consumed by children must have pesticide levels 10 times lower than those of adults.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EASTERN and southern Europe countries slated to join the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004, have worked small wonders in recent years to set up anti-money laundering regimes, not necessarily because they believe this is good in itself but partly at least because EU entry might not be possible otherwise.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A NEWLY developed farm-to-fork database system could help better trace the source of food poisoning outbreaks in beef cattle. Developed in the USA by Kansas-based VeriPrime Inc, the system labels each animal with a coded metal tag, bearing birth and slaughter information.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union study into indoor pollution has concluded that environmental tobacco smoke is hard to clear from enclosed spaces. Using its ‘Indoortron’ laboratory model, EU Joint Research Centre scientists have shown that increased ventilation systems in buildings “do not have a significant influence on the air concentration of tobacco components.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EXTERNAL social, environmental and economic costs imposed by nuclear energy are comparatively low, according to European Commission research. Estimated at Euro (cents) per kilowatt hour, nuclear electricity’s costs are below wind energy, but roughly level with hydro, ranging from 0.03 in Portugal and 1 cent in France and Greece.…