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Guardian: You contend that "stiffer European regulations and standards governing mining safety, industrial plant licensing and pollution are in force" in the former communist bloc countries and now members of the EU (Report, 13 October), yet since last week's Hungarian sludge disaster the offending company has been pumping out defensive statements that the red mud does not qualify as toxic material under EU regulations. And this is true – while, prior to its joining the EU in 2004, Hungary had ......
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More toxic threats to eastern Europe
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 16th, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation