Day: 18 August 2006

Germans launch global green energy index

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Brits put a break on SUV sales

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Development threatens France’s great lakes

The wild shorelines of France's biggest lakes risk being turned into urban zones, as the government withdraws a law that has protected them for twenty years, campaigners say.

Turbines wind up as art installation

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End of the line for toxic liner

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Road builders asked to consider butterflies

When drawing up plans for a new road butterflies might not be at the forefront of the designers' minds but, according to new guidelines published this week by the Highways Agency and English Nature, they should be.

Giant crane speeds up clean up at nuclear site

A piece of equipment designed to filter radioactive sludge from part of the Sellafield site has been installed using one of the largest cranes in Europe.

Edie Environmental Legislation Summary, August 06

Recent changes to legislation which will impact on the environmental sector in the UK, Europe and internationally come under the spotlight in this Semple Fraser and Edie News monthly round-up of new law and policy. Among the developments this month we look at EC regulations on shipment of waste, UK climate change agreements and reulation governing the export of nuclear material.

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