BP last night sought to draw a line under two years of damage to its troubled North American operations by agreeing to pay fines totalling £182m to US authorities to settle violations linked to a refinery explosion, oil pipeline leaks and fraud in energy trading – Financial Times
The "point of no return" for the world's environment is being approached and Britain's economy could be crippled by the cost of catastrophic natural changes, according to a landmark UN report – The Daily Telegraph
The speed at which mankind has used the Earth's resources over the past 20 years has put "humanity's very survival" at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded. The environmental audit, for the United Nations, found that each person in the world now requires a third more land to supply his or her needs than the Earth can supply – The Times
Clean-up work at all of the defunct nuclear reactors in the South of England is to be halted amid funding problems at the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency, The Times has learnt. In its business plan, to be published next month, the NDA is expected to say that resources will be moved to Sellafield and the clean-up work will be suspended at the Sizewell A, Dungeness A, Hinkley Point A, Bradwell and Berkeley Magnox reactors – The Times
The EU and America are expected to agree early next month international standards for trading biofuels that could see a huge expansion in the global market for alternative sources of power, such as jatropha, senior US diplomats said yesterday – Guardian
The "point of no return" for the world's environment is being approached and Britain's economy could be crippled by the cost of catastrophic natural changes, according to a landmark UN report – The Daily Telegraph
The speed at which mankind has used the Earth's resources over the past 20 years has put "humanity's very survival" at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded. The environmental audit, for the United Nations, found that each person in the world now requires a third more land to supply his or her needs than the Earth can supply – The Times
Clean-up work at all of the defunct nuclear reactors in the South of England is to be halted amid funding problems at the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency, The Times has learnt. In its business plan, to be published next month, the NDA is expected to say that resources will be moved to Sellafield and the clean-up work will be suspended at the Sizewell A, Dungeness A, Hinkley Point A, Bradwell and Berkeley Magnox reactors – The Times
The EU and America are expected to agree early next month international standards for trading biofuels that could see a huge expansion in the global market for alternative sources of power, such as jatropha, senior US diplomats said yesterday – Guardian
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