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Two senators are planning to introduce legislation that could reduce the effectiveness of US air pollution laws, environmentalists have warned.
Scotland's new Environment Minister has reaffirmed the Scottish Executive's commitment to sustainable development, and has congratulated local authorities on their commitment to the challenges of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, offering communities a further £275,000 to achieve sustainability.
Recent environmental disasters and threats to global fish stocks have lent a sense of urgency to the environmental policy work to be undertaken by the EC during 2000.
The US Supreme Court has ruled that an Environmental Protection Agency law requiring many states to reduce their air pollution drifting across stateliness can stay, defeating an action brought about by 50 utilities, eight states and industry groups.
Discussions on the environment between the G8 nations were considered a success for agreeing to finalise the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
A phthalates banned in the EU for use in children's 'mouthing' toys has had its carcinogenic classification downgraded by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
In his proposed budget for 2002, President George W. Bush raised the Environmental Protection Agency's budget against expectation, announced the largest ever funding level for the Land and Water Conservation Fund and pledged $4.9 billion to meet the National Park Systems' backlog of maintenance and improvements.
As expected President George W Bush has announced that drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a major part of his energy policy in his proposed budget for 2002, but the plan is already facing Congressional challenges.
South Africa's first ever concession contract for water supply and wastewater treatment services has gone to a consortium led by Saur UK - part of the international operations of the French Saur Group.
The industry group representing European plasticisers has admitted that it will not be resorting to court action over the EU's emergency ban on four phthalates used to soften pvc toys.
Environmental activists have boarded a ship off the coast of North Wales, in the UK, and one activist has chained himself to the anchor preventing the ship from moving.
Australia leads the developed world in tree felling and environmentalists have called for a national summit on the resulting increase in salinity.
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