Day: 15 February 2007

Warming Europe ‘must adapt water strategy’

European countries must start preparing for the water shortages, floods and droughts likely to be brought on by climate change, the EU has warned.

Low-carbon homes to be built on hospital site

Hundreds of low-carbon homes are to go up on a former hospital site in Epsom, Surrey as part of a national regeneration scheme set to redevelop 96 former hospital sites for housing.

New rules ‘encourage building on greenfield’

New Government rules greenfield encourage development by ruling out unexpected "windfall" sites from local authorities' house-building plans, a planning committee has warned.

Nuclear consultation ‘misleading’ – High Court judge

A High Court judge has ruled the Government's public consultation on a new generation of nuclear power plants "inadequate" and "misleading" with regard to nuclear waste, in response to a legal challenge from Greenpeace.

US firm to supply solar panels for major German plant

A US-based company is to supply solar panels for a 40MW solar power plant - one of the biggest in the world - to go up in the Saxon region of Germany, it emerged on Wednesday.

Tougher waste proposals clear first European hurdle

MEPs have backed tougher waste targets for Europe but the beefed up plans are likely to be resisted when they come before the Council of Ministers later this year.

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