WORLD IN BRIEF : EUROPE : Conferees Agree to Cut Pollution
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Britain, under pressure from neighboring countries to improve its pollution practices, agreed to join other North Sea nations in steps to clean up the sea. Britain, the only nation bordering the North Sea that still dumps sewage sludge and industrial wastes into the sea, agreed with other nations at a conference in The Hague, Netherlands, to reduce by 70% from 1985 levels the amount of cadmium, mercury, dioxin and lead it dumps into the sea by 1995.
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