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Publish date: November 15, 2009
Written by: Veronica Webster
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It remains to be seen whether the Dutch government is being asked to implement an EPS in the Netherlands alone independently of EU legislation or only if an EU-wide EPS is introduced.
Further, although the resolution does not represent a compulsory call to action, it requires the government to offer an explanation if it decides not to act upon the resolution posed by the parliament.
The successful adoption of this resolution by the Dutch parliament can be partly attributed to the continuous efforts of Natuur en Milieu and serves as an example to other member states.
At first, the crew of the K-27 Soviet submarine was unaware anything was awry. As recounted by Vyacheslav Mazurenko, the sub’s chief warrant officer, the K-27 was three days into a five-day test mission in May of 1968, which was meant to precede a two-month, round the world deployment.
The war in Ukraine has put many things on hold. But in this feature for Bellona’s Russian-language Environment & Rights magazine, Viktoria Hubareva, a Kyiv-based journalist and ecologist, shows that Ukrainian environmentalists have their hands full.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.