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BY PHILIP FINE

THE USA’s Alabama has passed a law to try and rid the state of the 15-20 million tyres in its dumps. The Scrap Tire Environmental Quality Act will allow the state to collect US$1 (60p) in tax on the sale of replacement tyres, require bonds from tyre haulers and fine illegal dumpers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over its failure to properly implement the EU’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive. Brussels says there is no guarantee Irish industries and farms will follow the legislation’s environmental rules.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN is one of a number of EU countries being threatened by the European Commission with actions in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for non-compliance with EU waste treatment and water laws. The potential legal action over waste management arises from a ruling by the ECJ in 2002 when the UK was condemned for failing to adopt waste management plans that conformed to the EU’s framework waste, hazardous waste and packaging waste directives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESEARCHERS from the leather industry are being invited to gather with their colleagues from the textile, pulp and paper sectors in a European Union workshop focusing on their recycling of water and the treatment of wastewater. The September 18 and 19 meeting in Copenhagen is being organised by the EU-funded PANATEX project.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEW Italian presidency of the European Union has announced that a key policy priority, (until it leaves office in December), will be the systematic knitting of EU energy policies with environmental considerations. It has already staged a meeting of European energy and environment ministers on this issue, including a debate on whether energy liberalisation has harmed or helped the environment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union proposals to make polluting companies legally liable for the environmental damage has taken a large step towards becoming law, with EU Member States approving the idea in principle, the European Parliament having already given its assent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SIGNIFICANT problems have been detected by a European Commission study into the implementation of the European Union’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive in seven EU Member States, with Britain being the only country so far found complying.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL health authorities need to guard against the leaching of marine pollution through porous aquifers into freshwater groundwater sources, a European Union funded research project has warned. The Euro 2.4 million SALTRANS study has dismissed earlier assumptions that toxic organic pollutants are not sufficiently soluble to flow into groundwater reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on government projections, the paper claims combined emissions of Europe, Japan, the US and other highly industrialised countries could grow by eight per cent from 2000 to 2010, (17 per cent over 1990 levels), despite measures already in place to limit them.…