Deutsche Welle: Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide in the European Union rose in 2007 despite EU schemes to cut them, with the EU’s wealthiest and oldest members leading the surge, the bloc’s executive said Friday. The rise was slower than the pace of EU economic growth, indicating that the fledgling emissions-reduction scheme is still having an impact, the European Commission said in a statement. According to the commission, the more than 11,000 factories, power plants and smelters in the …