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Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- While human-caused global climate change has long been a concern for environmental scientists and is a well-known public policy [...]

The European Commission approved three Decisions on September 3 and 4 extending the validity of or establishing new criteria for the award of the European ecological label to interior paints [...]

The European Commission has decided to give mandates to the European =Union Eco-labelling Board (EUEB) to draw up and/or review eco-label =criteria and to define assessment and verification requirements for [...]

The energy white paper was attacked by MPs yesterday as a 'vacuous' document containing inherent contradictions. The environmental audit committee said the government's inability to publish an implementation plan for [...]

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Jean Chretien signed papers to ratify the Kyoto Protocol yesterday, paving the way for Canada to bind itself officially to the controversial environmental treaty at the [...]

Green paper proposals to revamp the planning system will fail to protect the environment properly, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution warned yesterday. The proposals - to streamline the planning [...]

Office Depot yesterday announced a Dollars 2.2m initiative with three international conservation organisations aimed at advancing more environmentally-friendly practices. The number two US office supply retailer has formed the Forest [...]

Leather jacket wearing EU environment commissioner Margot Wallstrom battled for EU wildlife yesterday, announcing legal action against eight countries that have failed to protect wild birds, habitats, etc. Strangely, France [...]

The European Parliament has given a favourable welcome to the European Commission's Green Paper on the future of maritime policy, published in June 2006, and supported an 'integrated' approach that [...]

A delegation from the Youth Eco-Parliament has officially submitted a White Paper on the environment during a ceremony held in Brussels. Present at the ceremony were Prince Laurent of Belgium [...]

The European Commission's green paper on maritime policy could recommend a new legal framework and new institutions to deal with Europe's coastal areas, EU Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg told representatives [...]

Following close on the solemn commitment by the EU27, at the last EU summit of heads of state and government, to make drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, [...]

EPA has finalized a non-binding paper on the Office of Pesticide Programs' procedural guidance for policy development (69 FR 66432; see PTCN, March 24, Page 9). OPP said the goal [...]

The European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) says the White Paper 'lacks a clear vision' and, in any case, fails to meet the sustainable transport requirements raised at the [...]

Jointly presented by Erkki Liikanen, the Enterprise Commissioner, and the Environment Commissioner, Margot Wallstrom, the White Paper is intended to balance the essential need to protect human health and promote [...]

The European Commission will next month seek to air its much-vaunted 'polluter pays' principle, when it finally publishes a long-delayed white paper on environmental liability. The idea of making companies [...]

On the eternal conflict between maximum and minimum harmonisation, MEPs acknowledge that the former can be effective in ironing out the fragmentation of business and consumer legislation. However, they say [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the American Forest and Paper Association: ArborGen, Grays Harbor Paper, Marcal Paper Products, and Thilmany Papers are the newest members of the [...]

Site Name: St. Regis Paper Site Location: Cass Lake, Minn. Contaminants: Dioxin, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, pentachlorophenol Contractor: Not available at press time Next Action: Additional investigation Why This Site Is Important: [...]

Continental Carbon Co. and its Taiwan-based parent companies, China Synthetic Rubber Co. and Taiwan Cement Corp. will have to address contamination or face a lawsuit from the Paper, Allied Industrial, [...]

Globe Rubber Works Inc., Rockland, Mass., will pay $6,175 in toxic-user late fees and related penalties as part of a negotiated settlement with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). [...]

Tribes got a chance to stress the importance of the Superfund program at the third meeting of the National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology's (NACEPT) Superfund subcommittee. 'Without [...]

The article discusses the Australian government's safeguard mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the controversy surrounding the use of carbon credits to meet the targets. Topics include the Greens' Senator's questioning of the government's use of offsets and the Labor party's plan to introduce safeguard mechanism credits (SMCs); climate trigger in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act; and a potential solution to the issues with the safeguard mechanism.

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The article reports that Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott may consider a goods and service tax (GST) increase but warned the states that any change will be a part of a reform to ensure that there will be no overall tax increase. Topics discussed include the Federal Labor's commitment to oppose a GST increase and Labor leader Bill Shorten to confirm that his party will implement a renewable energy target by 2030 and introduce an emission trading scheme.

The article reports that thousands of tons of material left curbside for recycling in American cities and towns have gone to landfills after China banned in summer 2018 imports of various types of plastic and paper for recycling as part of its antipollution campaign. Topics covered include the difficulty of waste managers in finding a substitute for the Chinese market, and six ways to properly recycle to prevent the recyclable materials from being contaminated.

Jeffrey Hollender'sbusiness card is printed on recycled paper using soy-based inks. His toilet paper is whitened with eco-friendly hydrogen peroxide rather than chlorine bleach. His switchboard soothes callers with woodland [...]

JAKARTA -- European timber suppliers, paper companies and publishers face increasing scrutiny over the sources of their wood and paper after Greenpeace yesterday pledged an 'accelerating' campaign against illegally-logged timber, [...]

From Mr Mark Manger. Sir, John Kay, in his comment on paper recycling ('Thinking outside the blue box on recycling', February 25), claims that paper is a renewable resource because [...]

The article offers information on the research paper "Buy Coal! A Case for Supply-Side Environmental Policy," which suggests that the best policy for a multinational climate coalition is to purchase the extraction rights of fossil fuels and conserve the deposits.

The peripheral maritime regions of the EU are calling for the European Commission's green paper on territorial cohesion to be followed by a white paper, allowing this debate to be [...]

The article reports on the move of Kenya, banning the use of plastic bags to protect marine animals, as well as the environment.

The article reports on announcement by Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar regarding country's readiness to build a 500 mega watts (MW) thermal power plant in Sri Lanka, and mentions that that the building process will start after getting environmental clearances from the country.

In its struggle to make New York more green, the Bloomberg administration has tried discouraging people from using plastic bags. It has taken out ads beseeching residents to use cloth bags and set up recycling bins for plastic bags at supermarkets. But now the carrots have been put away, and the stick is out: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has called for charging shoppers 6 cents for every plastic bag needed at the register. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the so-called "hockey stick graph" which has been used in climate change discussions to illustrate the radical changes in average temperature which has occurred in the Western Hemisphere over the past one thousand years. The chart has been the focus of debate and intense scrutiny because it stands as an example of politicized research results. Environmental policy makers depend on scientific research, such as that which produced the notorious graph; however, it is easy to stretch and manipulate data to serve political purposes.

Focuses on early 2000 proposals for industrial plants in New York's Hudson River Valley, including a power plant in Athens, a paper recycling and power plant in Ulster, and a cement factory in Greenport. Governor George Pataki's recruitment of the industries; Environmentalists' concerns about the impact on efforts to reclaim the Hudson from industrial pollution and promote tourism; Public relations efforts in towns along the river.

The article reports on the 143rd annual meeting of the largest interdisciplinary scientific society in the U.S. The week-long meeting, "Science and Change: Hopes and Dilemmas" as its theme, focused most of its attention on papers and discussion concerning energy, resources, economic development and environmental policy.

BRUSSELS -- The European Commission sought yesterday to paper over the cracks that have emerged in its position on implementing the Kyoto protocol, after one of its members said the [...]

JAKARTA -- WWF, the conservation organisation, has withdrawn from a controversial project to help clean up the environmental practices of Indonesia's largest pulp and paper producer - a move that [...]

There is nothing more difficult in business than repairing a tarnished reputation. So when Asia Pulp & Paper, an Indonesian company with a long history of bulldozing its way through [...]

So what do you do all day? I focus on our ability to save energy in large multi-boiler systems. That involves writing papers, working with my engineering colleagues, finding better [...]

Alistair Darling, the transport secretary, yesterday made much of his 'balanced approach' in the white paper setting out the future of air transport infrastructure over the next 30 years. In [...]

Boise Cascade, which in July agreed to buy Office Max, may have found the perfect way to attract all the tree-hugging students who need paper and pencils this fall. It [...]

Asia Pulp & Paper, the Indonesian group at the centre of the largest debt restructuring in emerging market history, has launched a public relations offensive in an effort to rebuild [...]

'Kent, sir - everybody knows Kent - apples, cherries, hops and women,' says Alfred Jingle in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. Much of the pleasure of the 'Garden of England' [...]

If friction between con flicting objectives could generate heat, Britain would be a warmer place after the publication of February's energy white paper. For the goals set out in the [...]

Millions of home-ownersface having to instal new windows and boilers as a result of UK government regulations announced in a recent energy white paper. The document sets out the ambitious [...]