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Electricity
July 9, 2024
Inexpensive solar panels for your balcony. Sales of these panels may start to spike now that they are in more and more stores. But experts warn of the risks of such "do-it-yourself solar panels.
July 9, 2024
The Oost-Souburg village council also sets conditions for the construction of new nuclear power plants in the municipality of Borsele. She finds it strange that she is not included in the participation. 'Many villages in Borsele are as the crow flies further from the nuclear power plants than Oost-Souburg,' she writes in a letter to ...
July 9, 2024
It also accelerates approval for infrastructure projects and lifts the ban on building new wind farms.
July 9, 2024
Falling demand and production surpluses have caused the price of solar panels to plummet.
July 9, 2024
If it's up to energy company Engie, green gas will play a bigger role in the energy transition. In a shed in Alkmaar, it extracts gas from corn germs and onion peels. How exactly does that work, and how green is it?
Mobility
July 9, 2024
The former CEO of Poland's state-owned petrol giant and newly-elected PiS MEP Daniel Obajtek will testify on Tuesday before the parliamentary committee investigating the visa scandal, in which former PiS officials are accused of fast-tracking visa applications for migrants in exchange for money w...
July 9, 2024
A United Airlines Boeing plane lost another wheel during takeoff Monday, the U.S. airline reported. No one was injured during the flight. However, it is the umpteenth time something has gone wrong with a Boeing plane.
July 9, 2024
Chinese electric car maker BYD on Monday struck a deal with Turkey to open a major plant in the country. The move allows the Chinese to bypass new import duties from Brussels.
July 9, 2024
I soulfully love driving my car but not car washing and vacuuming. Fortunately, I have a wonderful garage that takes care of that at the MOT.
July 8, 2024
At the beginning of this year, the Dutch Labor Inspectorate announced that it would be enforcing stricter enforcement of exposure to diesel engine emissions. We - along with other industries - have had several discussions with the inspection about this. The policy remains unchanged, but we are happy to help you get started.
Agriculture
July 9, 2024
The mood in U.S. agriculture is not improving, according to the Ag Economy Barometer from Purdue University and CME Group. High costs for inputs and the real risk that crop and livestock prices will fall further are weighing on the mood among U.S. farmers.
July 8, 2024
The Vion slaughterhouse in Boxtel has an export ban from the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA). The company has been temporarily banned from exporting meat to countries outside the EU since July 3.
July 8, 2024
The POV comes up with a number of proposals to realize more placement space for manure. First, it wants additional capacity in existing manure processing by 2024. Force licensing of manure processors and a faster decision LBV+.
July 8, 2024
The new administration wants exceptions for the Netherlands within the EU, in the areas of migration and agriculture. That won't be easy, Prime Minister Schoof noted Monday in Brussels.
July 8, 2024
Both ministers from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature paid farm visits on Monday. Minister Femke Wiersma visited the dairy farm of Peter and Lieke Ruitenburg in Woerden, Utrecht. State Secretary Jean Rummenie visited...
Built environment
July 8, 2024
Minor changes Environment Counter for state activities computer_keyboard-unsplash.jpg lilian.jongkin... Mon 8/7/2024 - 12:48 As of July 1, 2024, the Environment Counter has a number of minor changes for state legal activities. These include activities for storing gr...
July 8, 2024
Industrial construction offers significant CO2 reductions, including through more efficient processes and less waste generation.
July 6, 2024
Getting old cities like Maastricht "off the gas" is proving to be no easy task. If Biesland gets a heat battery, it would be one of the first tests in a 1960s neighborhood. Climate mayor Frits Hoff is dragging his feet.
July 5, 2024
With a new government taking office, there will be a change of direction on the topics related to transportation of hazardous materials and energy transition. The Energy and Transportation Safety lectorate of the Netherlands Institute for Public Safety (NIPV) analyzed the expected...
July 3, 2024
The IPO looks back on a successful Rural Area Summit on Friday, June 21. A unique company was gathered in the full breadth of administrative rural areas. There was room to really meet and have "the good conversation" with each other about the "State of the Rural Area.
Circular economy
July 9, 2024
Only seven offices in the Netherlands still have disposable cups by the coffee machine. At least that number has applied to the Inspectorate for the Environment and Transport (ILT) to continue to do so for the time being. Since the beginning of this year, coffee in the office must be served from reusable cups,...
July 8, 2024
More focus on waste prevention, waste separation and recycling, better services to citizens and more attention to industrial waste. These four issues are at the core of the new waste policy in Oisterwijk.
July 8, 2024
The Scottish Parliament unanimously passed a new law that sets recycling targets, limits the disposal of unsold goods and imposes taxes on single-use products such as disposable cups.
July 8, 2024
The unexpectedly high recycling targets that seem to have been suddenly agreed upon in Europe are unrealistic and will have major economic consequences, major industry representatives warn.
July 8, 2024
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management wants to make better use of the extended producer responsibility (UPV) system to promote circularity, including examining the usefulness of the general binding declaration. It is expected to take until 2027 before the UPV system will be addressed...