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BY MONICA DOBIE

RESEARCHERS from the University College London and the US Environmental Protection Agency have found that over the last 20 years, lakes and streams in the UK, southern Scandinavia and eastern North America have been stained brown by dissolved organic matter, indicating a return to a more natural, pre-industrial state following a decline in acid rain levels.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

NEW European Commission plans to free up the market for hydrogen-powered cars and pump money into development are gaining friends. Car makers and research bodies alike are hoping that the proposals, announced in Brussels in October, survive their passage through the European Parliament and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers – the EU’s legislative bodies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

GEOGRAPHICALLY Russia is part of Europe. Moscow is 1,557 miles from London, but 3,456 miles from New York. The Russian capital is also just 760 miles from Stockholm, as the crow flies. These figures are worth considering when trying understanding the often fraught energy diplomacy between Russia and the European Union (EU).…

BY PHILIP MCCORKELL, in London

QUESTION

London Mayor Ken Livingstone famously banned pigeon feed sellers from Trafalgar Square, while many Londoners and visitors to the city routinely refer to the birds as "flying rats". But do residents and tourists in London really hate pigeons that much or do some people think they are British urban icon?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MANY European academics and experts in the study of commercial crime are more than happy to discuss the state of play in the sector in an informal way with outsiders; others may be a little more cautious. But all are likely to suggest ways to gain further assistance.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

THE AUTOMOBILE manufacturing industry in Europe has given a generally positive welcome to the proposal from the European Commission that two years’ hence, all new vehicle types should have to have brake assist systems fitted. The systems boost a driver’s braking power in emergencies and, says the Commission, could save as many as 1,100 pedestrian lives a year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

*Valero retail station

A Valero retail petrol station. Valero petrol is 5% ethanol

Credit – Valero

*Valero – Texas City

Valero’s coker unit at their Texas City refinery.

Credit – Valero

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Caption – Ethanol is now available at a growing number of US gas stations

Credit – National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Caption – An ethanol production facility in the Midwestern United States, capable of producing 50 million gallons of ethanol annually.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has welcomed a cooperation agreement struck between the British and Irish governments to prevent illegal waste shipments across the land border between their two countries. Brussels was threatening legal action over the problem, because it broke European Union (EU) waste shipment rules, but with London and Dublin combining their forces, and tougher waste regulations being approved for Northern Ireland, the Commission has been satisfied.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas, ALAN OSBORN, in London, and PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut.

AS American gas prices once again edge closer to the US$3 a gallon mark – the point at which an all-pervading quiet panic besets the US retail market – staff at the country’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s hotline know busy times are ahead.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE MONEY Laundering Bulletin has found effects of the European Union’s (EU) second money laundering directive’s (2MLD) extension of EU anti-money laundering regulations to a range of businesses and professions are complicated by differences in the definition of the professions between the 27 member states.…