Posted in Environment, Europe, Policy, Pollution on 2008-05-22 | No Comments »
After eight years of negotiation, the European Parliament has reached an agreement with member states on legislation that will force national governments to apply criminal sanctions to those causing deliberate or negligent damage to the environment.
EU agrees to outlaw ‘green’ crimes
Posted in CO2-Emission, Climate, Europe, Fossils, Pollution on 2008-04-03 | No Comments »
For a second straight year, seven of the twelve dirtiest European installations
are in Germany, preliminary 2007 data from the European Commission showed on Wednesday.
German utility RWE AG’s lignite coal plant at Niederaussem topped the list, spewing the equivalent of 31.3 million tonnes of earth-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) last year comparable to the total greenhouse gas [...]
Posted in CO2-Emission, Climate, Energy, Fossils, Pollution on 2008-02-15 | No Comments »
Researchers have developed porous materials that can soak up 80 times their volume of carbon dioxide, offering the tantalizing possibility that the greenhouse gas could be cheaply scrubbed from power-plant smokestacks. After the carbon dioxide has been absorbed by the new materials, it could be released through pressure changes, compressed, and, finally, pumped underground for [...]
Posted in Environment, Pollution on 2008-01-15 | No Comments »
Western nations are contributing to China’s CO2 emissions, according to a report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
“Western countries such as Norway are outsourcing pollution to China and other countries in the developing world,” said Rasmus Reinvang from WWF-Norway, co-author of the report.
This is saving European [...]
