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News you might have missed: 16 June 2009

Published Tuesday, 16th June 2009

newspapersTrying to keep up with all the latest cleantech news and headlines? Here are some developments you might have missed:

  • Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin have signed a transatlantic collaboration agreement with the Silicon Valley-based Irish Technology Leadership Group to drive innovation and create new business on the island of Ireland;
  • Hints that transport will be targeted by the new Commission in its next stage of reducing greenhouse gases have been dropped by three leading officials, the European Federation for Transport and Environment reports;
  • A group of wildlife enthusiasts from the npower graduate scheme has been giving Welsh beaches a boost in time for the British summer, donning their wellies to clean up the coastline in the Vale of Glamorgan;
  • The first industrial-scale facility to use a new Bayer technology to treat waste air has been started up at Europe’s largest lead manufacturer, Berzelius Stolberg GmbH in North Rhine-Westphalia;
  • New environmental challenges will test European refiners’ flexibility and resources, according to the Oil & Gas Journal;
  • Some 20 German firms plan to form a consortium to develop a massive solar energy farm in north Africa that could provide power for Europe, the Sueduetsche Zeitung reports.
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