http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/index/uneThematique.asp?idThema=3 Les dernières nouvelles au sujet de l’air fr http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=659&idThema=3 14/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=659&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=659&idThema=3 In June, the European Commission may well submit to the European Council and Parliament a proposition to tax heavy goods vehicles in accordance with the pollution they emit, the traffic jams they... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=654&idThema=3 13/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=654&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=654&idThema=3 When the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Swiss President Pascal Couchepin met on 29th April, they announced the launch of a new campaign to measure noise pollution, and the reinstatement of a... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=651&idThema=3 13/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=651&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=651&idThema=3 Shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Christine Todd Whitman, at the time Head of the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), reassured the people living near the smoking... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=641&idThema=3 17/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=641&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=641&idThema=3 As promised in June 2007, France’s President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has now stated the terms for drawing up a sustainable development charter for Paris’s Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport. However, the... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=640&idThema=3 16/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=640&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=640&idThema=3 New York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, will be disappointed. The congestion-pricing scheme he has been trying to introduce for over a year came up against “overwhelming and persistent opposition” at a... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=626&idThema=3 07/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=626&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=626&idThema=3 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just auctioned 1.5% of the countries total annual sulphur dioxide (SO2) allowances for a total sum of $65.8 million. Each allowance permits its owner to... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=619&idThema=3 02/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=619&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=619&idThema=3 In a document (1) published on the CITEPA (2) website, the European Commission announced that it is to launch a consultation on the plans to make petrol vapour recovery systems on petrol pumps http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=605&idThema=3 21/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=605&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=605&idThema=3 A survey published on 15th February by the European Commission has found that the airport noise directive (1) has had little effect on noise management around airports. The directive requires airport... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=599&idThema=3 18/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=599&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=599&idThema=3 The "Contre le bruit de jets militaires en temps de paix" (Action against military jet noise in peace time) initiative, launched by Swiss ecologist Franz Weber, has failed. A referendum in... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=590&idThema=3 12/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=590&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=590&idThema=3 The Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project (WACAP), conducted over a six-year period by players including the National Park Service, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Oregon... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=580&idThema=3 04/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=580&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=580&idThema=3 Air pollution levels have fallen slightly, and life expectancy has increased a little since London introduced congestion charging in February 2003. This is the conclusion of a study published by the... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=577&idThema=3 29/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=577&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=577&idThema=3 The French association for hearing-related information and prevention, called “JNA” (Journée nationale de l’audition), and the Médéric complementary social protection and retirement group recently... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=571&idThema=3 25/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=571&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=571&idThema=3 A study published on 12th February in the European Cardiology Society’s European Heart Journal shows that exposure to noise (aircraft traffic, road traffic or even a partner snoring) at a level higher... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=567&idThema=3 21/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=567&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=567&idThema=3 Ozone was not headline news in the Paris–Ile-de-France region of France in 2007, whereas, for the first time, particle concentrations exceeded the limit values at two monitoring stations positioned... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=559&idThema=3 15/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=559&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=559&idThema=3 Two environmental NGOs have given the Port of Long Beach (California) 90 days to clean up its operations. If it fails to do so they will file a lawsuit with the Federal Court of Justice. The NGOs are... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=555&idThema=3 13/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=555&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=555&idThema=3 “Building a clean sky” was the catchphrase used on Tuesday 5th February at the launch of the Clean Sky Joint Technology Initiative (JTI), a research project being driven by the European aerospace... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=550&idThema=3 08/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=550&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=550&idThema=3 On 4th February the British capital introduced a £49 million pound (€65.3 million) system to check pollution. The system’s 75 cameras “read” the registration plates of diesel-run lorries of over 12... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=547&idThema=3 07/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=547&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=547&idThema=3 Concentrations of airborne mercury exceeding current standards were measured in the Brussels region of Belgium between 22nd and 25th January, mainly at night. According to the news website 7 sur 7, a... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=529&idThema=3 22/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=529&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=529&idThema=3 A study (1) published in the Journal of epidemiology and community health (JECH) based on the pollution exposure of 26 European cities shows that reducing ambient levels of fine particulate matter... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=523&idThema=3 21/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=523&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=523&idThema=3 Radon causes 100 times more deaths than carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and it is the second biggest cause of death from lung cancer in the United