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1997

7 Jan -

Gummer congtratulates do-little newspaper industry

7 Jan -

Private roads cost more, but government gives go-ahead for three more projects

8 Jan -

Anniversary of newbury protest

12 Jan -

Deadly pollution levels soar in 1996

13 Jan -

Deadly mahogany trade set for control

13 Jan -

Newbury Bypass Reunion Rally

15 Jan -

Sellafield leak reveals Nirex plans on the rocks

16 Jan -

Swedish companies urged to condemn logging

17 Jan -

Mass London Rally To Support Traffic Reduction Law

21 Jan -

NIREX delay will save 282 million

22 Jan -

Traffic reduction law to get green light?

24 Jan -

TRAFFIC REDUCTION LAW GETS MPs APPROVAL

27 Jan -

Sir Leon Scaremongers over Waste Law

28 Jan -

Government announces flawed recycling laws

29 Jan -

New Road Threat to Devon Countryside Announced as A30 Protesters Break Eviction Record

31 Jan -

NIREX nailed by top government adviser

1 Feb -

Uk company told to quit malaysian dam scheme

2 Feb -

Nuclear Waste in Underground Water

5 Feb -

Foe welcomes labour's new guarantees on the environment

12 Feb -

The good wood guide

12 Feb -

Rupert murdoch ate my forest!...

14 Feb -

Prosecute the sea empress polluters - or we will

18 Feb -

Forest people condemned to deportation

19 Feb -

Countryside Commission calls for reopening of Salisbury Bypass Inquiry

19 Feb -

Road traffic reduction bill completes committee stage

19 Feb -

Countryside commission calls for reopening of salisbury bypass inquiry

21 Feb -

Last old forests being destroyed - companies named

21 Feb -

Destroyers of last old forests exposed

21 Feb -

Water companies must save water not waste it says FOE

25 Feb -

Leading Environmental Organisations Unite In Opposition To Salisbury Bypass

25 Feb -

Foe's response to Government proposals for environmental code of practice

27 Feb -

Foe repeats "prosecute or we will" ultimatum

27 Feb -

Government to back waste prevention bill

28 Feb -

Road traffic reduction bill passed by house of commons

3 Mar -

Proposed Recycling Laws Slammed

5 Mar -

Call For Independent Inquiry Into Control of Polluting Industries After MPs Lash Environment Agency

6 Mar -

Foe welcomes lib dem's green pledges

6 Mar -

Recycle 80 per cent of waste by 2010 challenges foe

6 Mar -

Labour and Tory Councils Fail on Waste Recycling - Europe May Force Improvements

6 Mar -

Red light for tewkesbury bypass

7 Mar -

Ten Days Left to Save the World

10 Mar -

Charter Will Fail To Increase Access To Government Information

10 Mar -

Groups angry as blair u-turn threatens vital energy efficiency moves

11 Mar -

Bill to Combat Fuel Poverty Goes Before Parliament, Top NGOs Give Backing

12 Mar -

Friends of the Earth Slams Major's Claim That Britain is "Clean Man of Europe"

14 Mar -

Road traffic reduction bill wins lords' approval

17 Mar -

Historic Victory Over Nirex - Major Blow Against Nuclear Industry

18 Mar -

Highways Agency admits serious damage to the countryside if any Salisbury bypass goes ahead

20 Mar -

Plan threatens one of europe's rarest plants

21 Mar -

Road traffic reduction bill becomes law

22 Mar -

Foe calls for action to protect our wetland habitats

24 Mar -

Salisbury Bypass: Alternatives cheaper and more effective says new independent report

25 Mar -

Environment spokesmen in first debate of the election

27 Mar -

City Centre Protest about Toxic Pollution from Industry

27 Mar -

Tory green manifesto: "nice bit of green, shame about the grey"

1 Apr -

Environment still suffering as watchdog celebrates 1st birthday

2 Apr -

Stand up for the south downs day walk - sunday 1 june '97

2 Apr -

Tory manifesto reaction, FOE pledges to fight tube sell-off

3 Apr -

Labour manifesto 'greener than tories' say foe

3 Apr -

Government receives thousands of objections to salisbury bypass

4 Apr -

Lib dem manifesto: "the greenest ever" says foe

5 Apr -

Foe warns regional electricity companies on climate change

7 Apr -

South downs 'wildlife showpiece' is ploughed up

7 Apr -

New report shows steady decline in wellbeing in UK since 1979

8 Apr -

Bakun dam: foreign investment unlikely

8 Apr -

Launch of sustainable cumbria plan after nirex defeat

8 Apr -

Report shows catalogue of accidents and near misses since sea empress disaster

9 Apr -

Chemical Warning Over Tinned Food - Cans Contain Gender Bender Chemicals

10 Apr -

Childhood cancer and leukaemia: new link to industrial pollution. john gummer presented with toxic challenge

11 Apr -

Farmer stops ploughing south downs wildlife site

11 Apr -

Foe calls on gummer to stop government-funded wildlife destruction

13 Apr -

Scrap the Bypass Programme says Friends of the Earth

14 Apr -

Council Tax Will Soar if Councils Choose to Incinerate Waste

14 Apr -

Prescott pledges greater support for south downs

15 Apr -

Environment agency moves to delay sea empress prosecution by foe

15 Apr -

Blair endorses campaign to stop "crazy" destruction of national wildlife site

16 Apr -

Bristol People Kept More Ignorant than Americans Protest at Cabot Tower

17 Apr -

Finnish Paper Deliveries Blockaded

18 Apr -

Locals 'unplough' national wildlife site following gummer's reprieve

18 Apr -

Euro report shatters john major's "clean man of europe" claim

18 Apr -

Gummer orders farmer to stop ploughing wildlife site

23 Apr -

Foe pickets general accident agm to stop investments in shell

23 Apr -

Oil companies' plans could lead to environmental catastrophe in central africa

25 Apr -

Shoppers say 'no!' to genetically modified food

28 Apr -

Tory environment record 'greyer than green'

29 Apr -

'man of straw' hogg in the stocks over failure to stand up for wildlife

29 Apr -

Green election challenge: final scores

1 May -

Foe questions abi decision to reject shell shareholders' resolution

6 May -

Shell environment report condemned as 'greenwash'

7 May -

Rtz to face environment and human rights critics at agm

8 May -

Local FOE campaigner goes to norway to stop midland toll motorway

8 May -

"don't invest in shell" foei tells prudential agm

8 May -

Finnish company destroys proposed russian forest national park

11 May -

Foe calls on agriculture minister to resign over conflicts of interest

12 May -

Case for Terminal Five crumbles as Inquiry enters third year

13 May -

Sea empress prosecution welcomed by foe

13 May -

Queen's speech: FOE tells Government to "act now" for the environment

14 May -

Queen's speech: missed opportunities for environment say foe

14 May -

Shell agm told: "stop wrecking the climate"

14 May -

'enough is enough mr prescott' as t5 inquiry enters third year

15 May -

Foe groups around the country protest at newspapers link with forest destruction

15 May -

Protest against newspapers' link to destruction of ancient forests

19 May -

Foe unveils water plan to save the environment while prescott holds summit

19 May -

Foe welcomes prescott's three week challenge to water industry

21 May -

New report shows 130,000 jobs could be created by traffic reduction bill

22 May -

Cynog dafis to promote national road traffic reduction targets as private members' bill

28 May -

Tax Waste, Not Jobs Says FOE

28 May -

'genetically-engineered food? no thanks!', say consumers

30 May -

FOE Calls for Traffic Reduction Targets as Summertime Smog Levels Soar

30 May -

Giant landscape sculpture goes up for the downs

2 Jun -

Radical new energy policy needed to beat climate change

2 Jun -

Waste Regulator Only Has Half The Resources It Needs To Do Its Job

3 Jun -

Destructive mahogany trade set for international controls

4 Jun -

Foe welcomes meacher's new leadership on climate

5 Jun -

Foe welcomes green speech by deputy pm

9 Jun -

Rural Transport: New Report Reveals Hidden Crisis

9 Jun -

Foe calls on Government to ban nuclear waste flights

11 Jun -

World bank president confronted by oil company scroungers

13 Jun -

Top rivers poisoned by sheep dip as Government secrecy hinders action

16 Jun -

PCBs and Dioxins in cod liver oil

18 Jun -

Mahogany fails to get cites listing

19 Jun -

Eu environment ministers face climate challenge

19 Jun -

Labour's Roads Review Fails to Scrap Worst Schemes

20 Jun -

Oil industry delays cleaner fuels

20 Jun -

Appendix iii listing offers little protection to mahogany

20 Jun -

Climate demon-stration at shell's gas bus launch with minister

20 Jun -

Public give massive support for key green policies

20 Jun -

Row brewing at g8 over climate change

23 Jun -

RTRA- Really Tragic Recurrent Apathy!

23 Jun -

Foe backs blair's tough talk at earth summit ii

24 Jun -

How to save money and help stop dangerous climate change

25 Jun -

Right to know law on toxic pollution

26 Jun -

Fine words from clinton no substitute for action

26 Jun -

Friends of the Earth releases 'Blueprint For A Green Budget'

27 Jun -

Five year review of earth summit reveals "scandalous betrayal" of rio promises

30 Jun -

Foe slams aa over budget claims

1 Jul -

Reduce vat on energy-saving goods say ace and foe

2 Jul -

Chancellor ducks climate challenge

3 Jul -

Foe welcomes water pollution charging announcement

4 Jul -

Larne lough lives!

7 Jul -

Labour hypocrites over cardiff barrage says foe

8 Jul -

Lead in drinking water

9 Jul -

Thousands to protest about road traffic fuming mad rally - saturday 27 september 1997

16 Jul -

South downs farmer prepares to destroy another 'protected' wildlife site

16 Jul -

Sea empress: FOE slams environment agency and consults its lawyers over private prosecution

16 Jul -

Cap reforms fail to tackle key issues of environment, food quality, diet and health

17 Jul -

Midland voters tell prescott "keep labour's promise - don't build the bnrr"

18 Jul -

Foe urges Government to cut radioactive discharges

18 Jul -

British energy agm: shareholders question board over refusal to heed official financial advice on reprocessing

21 Jul -

Sea empress: FOE's case sound but prosecution delayed pending clarification by environment agency

22 Jul -

New London Waste Plan Good for Jobs and Environment

24 Jul -

Death knell for thorp after nirex fiasco

25 Jul -

Britain's top green groups urge blair over roads review

26 Jul -

Sea level rise threatens top seaside wildlife areas

28 Jul -

"ministerial myopia over midlands motorway" say friends of the earth

1 Aug -

Ford slammed for wrecking the planet - protesters target new car registration launches

7 Aug -

Climate talks fail as usa and japan hold world to ransom

8 Aug -

Labour fails green test in first 100 days

10 Aug -

Picnic protesters call on Government to save wildlife site from the plough

13 Aug -

Worst smog of the year

13 Aug -

Scientists warn of hottest year ever as shell helps block climate change agreement

18 Aug -

Top journalist unlocks labour's transport gridlock

21 Aug -

Prescott prevaricates on transport policy

26 Aug -

Climate Campaigners On-Line

27 Aug -

Government should support landfill directive

4 Sep -

Abb pulls out as bakun dam flounders

9 Sep -

Congestion costs london housholds 697 per year

11 Sep -

Greens want grasses

11 Sep -

Dirty fuel dropped in national power u-turn

16 Sep -

Environment agency misleading public on water

16 Sep -

Illegal Water Pollution Rife

18 Sep -

Foe welcomes royal commission report

18 Sep -

Labour "wobbling" on traffic reduction promises?

19 Sep -

New deal set to save toad haven

22 Sep -

Wildlife shows global climate change is real

23 Sep -

Uk consumers fanning forest fires

23 Sep -

Ben elton to speak at fuming mad rally - saturday 27 september 1997

25 Sep -

Britons suffering health-threatening pollution up to one day in five

29 Sep -

Timber industry blamed for indonesian fires

29 Sep -

Labour in disarray on climate change target

30 Sep -

Action on climate change could create 226,000 new jobs

1 Oct -

New trading catalogue: wind-up radios and other sound gifts for the planet

1 Oct -

Welcome for labour nuclear and integrated transport reviews

1 Oct -

Local people and mps question quango's 'shameful proposal'

1 Oct -

Government indifference fuels indonesian forest fire disaster

1 Oct -

One in five top wildlife sites damaged in past five years

6 Oct -

Nature chief gets vote of no confidence over thorne and hatfield moors

8 Oct -

Sea empress - FOE criticises official report

9 Oct -

Farmers asked "WHY SOW WHAT YOU CAN'T SELL?"

13 Oct -

New briefing shows freak weather on the increase

13 Oct -

Car companies conspire to wreck global environment for profit

14 Oct -

"jams today, bigger jams tomorrow" unless Government backs traffic reduction says friends of the earth

15 Oct -

Green campaigners slam japan over global warming - demonstration outside japanese embassy

16 Oct -

10,000 houses get go-ahead in hertfordshire green belt

20 Oct -

Government slammed over vat on energy saving goods

20 Oct -

Climate change protest as shell celebrates centenary

21 Oct -

Meacher asks english nature chief to reconsider plans to end rare peat bogs protection

22 Oct -

Clinton Fails the World on Climate Change

22 Oct -

Foe comment on new "supercar"

23 Oct -

Foe welcomes moves by eastern electricity to combat global climate change

25 Oct -

Dixons in Green Dock over Waste

29 Oct -

Greens may be bad for you!

31 Oct -

End the 'smash and grab' of opencast coal mining say local communities

7 Nov -

Worst pollution for years hits UK cities

10 Nov -

Taxpayers face secret 30 billion bill from nuclear industry

12 Nov -

Disaster for the countryside as labour minister rejects higher housing targets for re-used land

14 Nov -

Task force must overcome industry resistance to cleaner cars

16 Nov -

Pro-nuclear minister acts to scupper wind farms in shadow of atomic plant at sellafield

17 Nov -

UK's top nature organisations call on government to protect wildlife

18 Nov -

New Research Shows Industry Slow To Respond To Landfill Levy - Call By FOE To Raise Tax and Extend To Incineration

19 Nov -

New public air pollution information system "important step forward" but action still needed to tackle traffic

19 Nov -

Uk must make massive reductions in consumption to avoid looming environmental crisis

19 Nov -

Uk must make massive reductions in consumption - new book sets targets

21 Nov -

FOE Rubbishes Reports That Recycling Is Bad

25 Nov -

Survey shows growing alarm over county council housing figures

27 Nov -

FOE Names Top Name Polluters Likely to be Hit Hardest by Water Pollution Tax

27 Nov -

Demo at us embassy over climate change: don't be a thanksgiving turkey mr clinton!

28 Nov -

International No Shop day

2 Dec -

Action needed as Moors are reprieved

3 Dec -

30,000 People Tell Prescott to Take Lead at Kyoto

3 Dec -

Opencast Coal Moratorium Must Follow Gas Moratorium

5 Dec -

Foe says "thanks for travelling by train and not by plane"

8 Dec -

World Bank Told: Stop Fuelling Fossil Fuel Addiction

8 Dec -

Friends of the Earth calls on Gore: "Read your book Al !"

8 Dec -

Friends of the earth slams prescott's decision to sacrfice west sussex countryside to new houses

8 Dec -

Government sheep dip proposals a sham

11 Dec -

Kyoto Deal Will Not Stop Global warming

12 Dec -

Waste minimisation bill set to become law

15 Dec -

Promise to protect amazon contradicted

15 Dec -

Action Needed As Moors Reprieved

15 Dec -

Timber Federation Misleads Public

16 Dec -

Christmas Costs Quarter Million Trees

16 Dec -

Foe hails "success" on genetically modified food

17 Dec -

Foe congratulates julia drown mp on introducing energy efficiency (information) bill

19 Dec -

Government wildlife agencies join call for moratorium on genetic engineering

22 Dec -

Nightmare noel for rudolph

23 Dec -

Festive fare foul? FOE talks toxic turkey

31 Dec -

New year cheer: 20 green victories from 1997

Newsletter

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