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BY DEIRDRE MASON
TECHNOLOGY may have produced many different ways of checking underground networks of pipes and sewers by remote control, but one problem remains the same: secure access. Even the smallest aperture can invite vandalism or, at its worst, deliberate contamination if it can be forced or broken easily.…

BY MICHAEL FOX
TANKS and vessels are used to store a huge range of hazardous liquids. But if they leak either from a failure of the storage system or during handling, many can pose a major threat to the environment and to groundwater.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMERS may know them as the high priests of capitalism and expect them to preach against agricultural subsidies, but a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has laid bare doubts that a truly effective farm support system has yet been invented, let alone implemented.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INNOVATIVE pilot study has been launched in Milan, which could transform the way that air pollution is analysed and measured in Europe, enabling a clearer picture to emerge about the source of emissions. The European Union’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has joined with the regional Italian environmental protection agency Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente Lombardia to measure urban air pollution in the city until the end of February.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INNOVATIVE pilot study has been launched in Milan, which could transform the way that air pollution is analysed and measured in Europe, enabling a clearer picture to emerge about the source of emissions. The European Union’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has joined with the regional Italian environmental protection agency Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente Lombardia to measure urban air pollution in the city until the end of February.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN businesses seem to be shying away from the country’s newly available terrorism insurance policies, saying they cost too much money.

Under a mandatory federal programme, insurers have been required to provide separate insurance to commercial policyholders for events defined as terrorism and causing at least US$5 million in losses; President Bush signed the law last November and the insurance carriers had until February 24 to inform policyholders how much they would have to pay for the coverage.…

BY MARK ROWE and ALAN OSBORN, in London, PHILIP FINE and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, and RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg

RATCHETING up security has been a prime concern of the nuclear industry since the September 11 attacks, with all countries possessing commercial reactors addressing the issue to some extent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HAVING assessed the assets and liabilities of the newly defunct European Coal and Steel Community, the European Commission has earmarked a further Euro 158.3 million for research into coal and steel. The decision has come after Brussels adopted the financial report detailing the winding up of the 50-year-old institution last year.…

BY PHILIP FINE

NUCLEAR waste disposal programmes should be implemented in stages, so that decisions about how to proceed can be based on the latest available information, says a new report from the Board on Radioactive Waste Management of the US National Research Council, which provides advice to the US federal government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers have appointed the European Commission as the long term guardian of the goals and assets of the new defunct European Coal and Steel Community. It has been given control of any resources remaining after the winding up of the institution and has been ordered to manage these assets “as to ensure a long-term return….aimed…