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EarthWire UK provides a daily overview of the environment in the UK as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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European Union and Environment

Transport to remain big polluter under new EU plan
Reuters | 28 Mar 2011
Europe's transport chief called for a shift away from fossil fuels on Monday to cut greenhouse gas emissions and protect the economy from oil price spikes, but critics said his strategy lacked meaningful action.

EU to subject nuclear reactors to "stress tests"
Reuters | 25 Mar 2011
European leaders agreed on Friday to set the "highest standards" of nuclear safety, in part by subjecting reactors to "stress tests," to guard against crises like that at Japan's stricken Fukushima plant.

Disasters | Environmental Awareness | Education | and Public Participation | European Union and Environment

EU climate chief sees green fuel debate in months
Reuters | 25 Mar 2011
European Union governments may begin talks in the coming months on a proposal to promote greener fuels, potentially black-listing fuels whose production is more polluting, according to Europe's climate chief.

EU emissions trading: the cap that does not fit
Guardian Unlimited | 17 Mar 2011
Markets that trade carbon pollution permits are meant to cut emissions. So why did the carbon dioxide vented in 2010 under Europe's scheme go up? An update on the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme and just how loose the cap on emissions is now, following the economic crash ...The latest analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows that last year, carbon emissions from the energy, steel, concrete and manufacturing facilities in the ETS rose by an estimated 1.8%.

England | European Union and Environment | Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Hedegaard: High targets will boost EU economy
Guardian Unlimited | 14 Feb 2011
EU climate commissioner says there is 'debate' - but no row – over raising the carbon targets to a 30% cut by 2020. Europe's climate chief insisted on Monday that tougher greenhouse gas targets would improve the EU's economic performance, rather than push businesses overseas, as companies and green...

Europe sets fuel-efficiency target for vans
Reuters | 20 Dec 2010
Europe set itself new fuel-efficiency targets for vans on Monday, aiming to cut fuel bills for small businesses and curb emissions of gases blamed for climate change.

European Union and Environment | Pollution | Pollution Impacts | Transport

EU gets draft deal to curb gas-guzzling vans
Reuters | 15 Dec 2010
The European Union struck a provisional deal on Wednesday to improve the fuel efficiency of vans and curb emissions blamed for climate change. But the deal was not formally approved by EU member states, most notably Europe's top van maker Germany, and will be put to the vote again by ministers in Brussels on Monday. EU negotiators agreed to cut van emissions by around 14 percent to an average of 175 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer by 2017.

European Union and Environment | Pollution | Transport

EU exec proposes ban on animal cloning for food
Reuters | 19 Oct 2010
The European Union announced plans on Tuesday to temporarily ban the use of animal cloning for food production, while allowing imports of food derived from the offspring of clones from the United States and elsewhere.

Agriculture | European Union and Environment | Genetically Modified Organisms | Livestock | Science and Environment

Cash from EU green plan 'to fund dirty coal plants'
The Independent | 27 Apr 2010
European countries will be able to use money from a key EU scheme for reducing climate-changing carbon emissions to build new coal-fired power stations, documents leaked to The Independent suggest.

United Kingdom | Climate Change | Energy Production | European Union and Environment

EU to lend 2 billion euros for climate work
Reuters | 21 Apr 2010
The European Union's executive has recommended making an extra 2 billion euros ($2.7 billion) of loans available to help other countries combat climate change.

United Kingdom | Climate Change | European Union and Environment

EU can afford to increase its climate ambition
BBC World Service | 20 Apr 2010
The economic recession has led to a sharp fall in EU emissions, making the current target to cut emissions by 20% before 2020 almost worthless.

Climate Change | European Union and Environment | Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The deflowering of the EU's green logo
Guardian Unlimited | 15 Apr 2010
The EU's Ecolabel is used to certify a product partly made from Indonesian rainforest timber.

Business and Industry | Deforestation | European Union and Environment

Air-travel taxes to solve climate-change crisis?
EurActiv | 01 Nov 2006
Air travel contributes some 3-3.5% of global carbon dioxide emissions.

Dorette Corbey MEP on air-quality directive
EurActiv | 01 Nov 2006
Corbey clarifies the Parliament's position on the air quality directive.

Air Pollution | EU Emission Trading Scheme | European Union and Environment

Major US utility backs EU-style carbon trading
EurActiv | 01 Nov 2006
Why are you in Brussels today? We met with the staff of Commissioners Verheugen and Dimas plus two permanent representations. And the topics you discussed?

EU wants to speed up zero-emission coal technology
EurActiv | 13 Oct 2006
Stakeholders in the coal industry and the EU Commission on 10 October agreed on the need to speed up the development and commercial exploitation of clean coal technology "as soon as possible".

EU moots border tax to offset costs of climate action
EurActiv | 11 Oct 2006
The emissions-trading scheme (ETS) places a cap on CO2 emissions from large industrial plants and allows them to exchange their potential surplus on an EU-wide 'carbon' market.

EU must reject Mandelson's trade vision
Friends of the Earth- England, Wales and N.Ireland. | 05 Oct 2006
Peter Mandelson's proposals will propel some of the most powerful corporations in the world into direct competition with subsistence farmers and infant industries in the South.

European Union and Environment

EU clamps down on GM rice
Friends of the Earth- England, Wales and N.Ireland. | 29 Aug 2006
Friends of the Earth has welcomed today's announcement by the European Commission that all consignments of US long grain rice must be tested to ensure that they do not contain an unauthorised genetically modified rice strain.

European Union and Environment | Genetically Modified Organisms

EU acts on GM rice scare
Green Consumer Guide | 25 Aug 2006
The European Commission has announced that it will implement measures to prevent GM contaminated rice from the US entering Europes food chain, in a move that has been praised by environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth.

European Union and Environment

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