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The EU threatened legal action against Poland on Tuesday over the construction of a motorway that would destroy Europe's only remaining ancient peat land if built.

A global coalition of environmental NGOs is putting pressure on governments around the world to phase out mercury and ban exports of the toxic metal. The Zero Mercury Coalition, which include veteran lobbyists from the European Environmental Bureau and South African grassroots network groundwork, are using next week's meeting of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) meeting in Nairobi to argue the case for a global ban.

The EU wants to regulate gas-guzzling cars out of existence by imposing binding emission caps on all new cars sold in Europe, likely to be included in a strategy due out on January 24. The new legislation is likely to limit emissions to 120 g CO2 per kilometre by 2012...