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The Thai Government plans to keep its ban on inland prawn farming, despite protests from farmers
The European Commission has launched a massive legal offensive against Member States who are dragging their feet on environmental law implementation and enforcement.
Belgium has not made the same environmental progress as a number of other OECD countries - "a major effort has begun and will need to be sustained to repay the outstanding environmental debt", according to the OECD's latest environmental performance review.
The UK Forestry Commission has published a strategy document that sets out how England's woodlands can help to improve the environment, the tourist and leisure industries, the economy and rural development.
A project to develop a performance specification and verification procedure for trade effluent meters - a £40,000 contract awarded to Sira Test & Certification Ltd by the DTI last June - has effectively ground to a halt following the presentation of the Project Team's findings at a Technology Transfer Group meeting at Sira's Chislehurst premises.
A group of UK local authorities have joined a new partnership scheme which aims to fast-track work for sustainable development at the most senior management levels.
UK Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott is to press for the formation of a UN group to co-ordinate world-wide efforts to tackle the effects of global warming and pollution on the oceans.
The UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) needs to do more to green its operations, says Glenda Jackson, the DETR's Green Minister following the publication of the Department's first Greening Operations Report.
The US EPA has launched a new website detailing the environmental benefits of solar energy. The website looks at the ways in which air pollution can be reduced by the use of solar power as an energy source. Use link below to view website.
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) has agreed to pay $10 million in fines and restitution and a further $9 million in remediation costs for lead sulphide discharges from the company's railroad car cleaning operation north of Cherryville, Missouri.
The US EPA has created a comprehensive air emission and fuel source database of virtually all electric power plants in the US.
A powerful Canadian pressure group has called on the Canadian federal government to legislate against the export of water.
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