The news comes only days after the chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, went to Brussels to demand the renegotiation of a further directive, the
Urban Waste Water Directive, which will require still tougher measures to
clean sewage discharges into
rivers and coastal waters by early next century.
He championed the creation of
urban parks, pushed for the installation of pollution controls on nearby incinerators, and acted to
clean up the Passaic
River and Superfund sites.