ENDS Report Issue 272, September 1997
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Bulletin
- PowerGen forks out for Orimulsion crop damage
- UK slides down EMAS league
- Agency acts on freemasons but lags behind SEPA on openness
- Agencies set out financial plans and environmental targets
- CBI revamps environment forum with benchmarking scheme
- Oil companies panned over refinery explosion
- DWI's crushing setback over Torbay crypto case
- Study finds tap water causes 40% of gastrointestinal illness
- Royal Commission warns of looming transport crisis
- Noise and odour complaints rise to new heights
- Offshore oil industry's oestrogenic discharges
- Unilever flushes out fate of P&G fat substitute
- Government signals tougher line on air pollution appeals
- Insurance venture introduces certification for land clean-ups
- Scientists dismiss `green' claims for phosphate detergents
- Study links surfing to hepatitis infection
Waste management
Marketplace
Policy
UK policy
- Spending freeze set to delay contaminated land regime
- Meacher steps up opposition to landfill Directive targets
- Sustainable development strategy promised for late next year
- Trials of roadside emission tests
- Agency proposes guidance on MBM combustion
- Agency consults on options for IPC charges
- Gaps in packaging data may delay Government review
- Agency's instrument certification scheme moves ahead
- DETR consults on changes to EC hazardous waste list
- Laboratories hit out over "grey list" standards
- "Competence" rules revised for waste treatment plants
EU policy
- Products covered by new proposal on dangerous substances in water
- Austria and Luxembourg fight to block imports of GM maize
- UK in symbolic shift on North Sea pollution
