Rob Edwards

Scientist vows: I will not back down over toxic salmon claim

from Sunday Herald, 29 February 2004

The Scottish fish farming industry has been accused of desperately trying to intimidate the scientists who raised the alarm about the dangers of eating salmon contaminated with toxic chemicals.

WHO ‘suppressed’ scientific study into depleted uranium cancer fears in Iraq

from Sunday Herald, 22 February 2004

An expert report warning that the long-term health of Iraq’s civilian population would be endangered by British and US depleted uranium (DU) weapons has been kept secret.

Air pollution in Scottish cities to breach safety limits

from Sunday Herald, 15 February 2004

Air pollution in Scotland's city centres is so bad that it will fail to meet the Scottish Executive's safety standards, an investigation by the Sunday Herald has revealed.

Despite more than a decade of official efforts to cut the killer fumes from vehicle exhausts, concentrations on the streets of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen are still relentlessly rising.

Local authorities now admit that they will be unable to meet the Executive's air quality targets for nitrogen dioxide and carbon particles in 2005 and 2010. Experts predict that public health will suffer as a result, which environmentalists say is "totally unacceptable".

RBS attacked over ‘unethical’ oil pipeline

from Sunday Herald, 08 February 2004

The Royal Bank of Scotland has come under fierce attack for allegedly breaching its environmental guidelines by investing in a highly controversial £2 billion oil pipeline across Turkey.

Government officials - see how they fly

from Sunday Herald, 01 February 2004

Ministers, civil servants and environmental agencies who are supposed to be curbing pollution are travelling millions of miles a year by air – the most polluting form of transport – the Sunday Herald can reveal.