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Reports that Britain's Environmental Protection Bill has now become an Act. Terms of the Act include larger fines for polluters, greater public access to information and an integrated approach to combating emissions.

Reports on the British government's decision to repeal section 143 of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act which requires public registration of contaminated land. Pressure exerted by property and insurance industries on Environmental Secretary John Gummer; Adoption of new approach preventing public awareness of contaminated land location; Contradiction with 1991 consultation paper outlining the need for public registers.

Editorial. Comments on a progress report issued by Michael Heseltine, the Secretary of State for the Environment in Great Britain. The report found gaping deficiencies in the government's environmental activities. Prime minister John Major's creation of a central agency along the lines of the US Environmental Protection Agency; What Heseltine must do.