The Group of Eight gave a verbal push here Sunday for tougher measures against decrepit oil tankers and reaffirmed their vows to help poorer countries but skirted tougher environmental issues that have divided the United States and Europe. A statement issued by the G8's environment ministers after a three-day meeting said that the catastrophic sinking of an oil tanker off Europe's Atlantic coast last November, in the second such disaster in just three years, "demonstrated that the existing rules on tanker safety and pollution prevention need to be further improved." They backed calls for the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)...
