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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL institution best known for promoting free market solutions for the world’s economic ills has issued a surprising call for governments to promote environmental good practice by relying more on compulsory regulation and less on voluntary guidance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a new long-term, strategy to fight health problems linked to the environment; it has been inspired by European Environment Agency figures saying 60,000 EU deaths a year are caused by air pollution.

Brussels has outlined the broad elements of this programme and will start public consultation on its details from next month.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union proposals to make polluting energy companies and utilities legally liable for the environmental damage they cause has taken a large step towards becoming law, with EU Member States approving the idea in principle. The Council of Ministers’ decision removes the final serious hurdle to the planned environmental liability directive, as the European Parliament has already given its assent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union proposals to make polluting companies legally liable for the environmental damage that they cause has taken a large step towards becoming law, with EU Member States approving the idea in principle. The Council of Ministers decision removes the final serious hurdle to the planned environmental liability directive, as the European Parliament has already given its assent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGY is being developed by a European Commission funded research project to allow curators to effectively monitor environmental pollution that can damage ancient treasures in museums and galleries. The MIMIC (microclimate indoor monitoring in cultural heritage preservation) project has adapted airborne particle detectors called dosimeters to assess the effects of combinations of pollutants, densities at which they could cause damage and microclimatic anomalies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL imaging from the European Space Agency’s ERS-2 satellite helped Swedish, German and Danish oil containment ships scoop up the bulk of an oil slick released from a sunken Chinese freighter that threatened the southern coast of Sweden this month.(June)…

BY PHILIP FINE

EMISSIONS trading programmes can achieve environmental goals faster and more economical than other alternative ecological policies, says report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The US group says that a well-designed and implemented cap-and-trade system ensures that environmental goals are met, regardless of where gases are emitted

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BY ALAN OSBORN
NOBODY likes nuclear waste but nobody has yet thought up a universally-acceptable way of disposing of it. This is as true in Europe as anywhere else. It may be fair to say, however, that some European countries have gone further than the rest of the world in drawing conclusions about the future of nuclear energy as a result of the problems caused by radioactive waste.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
New EU-wide rules to regulate waste from extractive industries like mining and quarrying have been proposed by the European Commission in a move to prevent the pollution of water and soil arising out of the long-term storage of waste in tailings ponds, waste heaps, lakes and rivers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from a consortium of high ranking European research teams has predicted that the world’s efforts to prevent greenhouse gas emissions are doomed to failure, even while the European Commission strives to force EU Member States to abide by their Kyoto Protocol commitments.…