Past press releases

1998

5 Jan -

Storms may be caused by global warming



5 Jan -

Two thirds of MPs support new law to reduce traffic



7 Jan -

Britain must set example to EU on environment



8 Jan -

Traffic moving slower in most cities says new report



8 Jan -

Survey exposes great cereal scam



12 Jan -

Reducing road traffic by 10 per cent "practical and feasible" says former labour transport advisor



13 Jan -

Work on new waste strategy announced



13 Jan -

Air pollution deaths double previous estimate - report highlights need for new law to cut traffic



14 Jan -

Local agenda 21 must have hard targets and timetables



14 Jan -

Warm homes key to cutting winter deaths



15 Jan -

Foe dismisses road lobby's desperate attack on new law to reduce traffic



15 Jan -

Planning reforms must not compromise democracy



16 Jan -

Labour marginal seats threatened if Government allows greenfield housing schemes



19 Jan -

Latest air pollution figures show continuing threat to public health



19 Jan -

Quango plans 8m "blitz" on london's finest wildlife haven



19 Jan -

Health standards broken at every london air pollution monitoring site in 1997



21 Jan -

Mandelson's birds face hormone disruption threat



22 Jan -

Urgent action demanded as environment agency reveals "gender bender" chemicals crisis



23 Jan -

Six million kids at risk from too much traffic



23 Jan -

Plans to destroy london's largest wildlife site may be illegal says friends of the earth



26 Jan -

FOE urges labour MPs to rebel on green field housing



26 Jan -

Shock new figures show worst loss of brazilian rainforest ever



26 Jan -

Foe demands end to british nuclear farce



28 Jan -

Foe welcomes Government u-turn on funding energy saving trust



28 Jan -

Seventy nine per cent want Government to set road traffic reduction targets, new nop survey reveals



28 Jan -

Campaigners claim traffic triumph as Government backs road traffic reduction bill



30 Jan -

Mps vote in favour of new law to cut traffic



30 Jan -

Green tax changes for jobs, economy and environment



2 Feb -

World wetlands day: meacher faces challenge over threat to top london wetlands



3 Feb -

Green poems for red buses



4 Feb -

Three steps to heaven? New Labour Starts Down Road to Sustainable Development



6 Feb -

Housebuyers could save 200 a year - new bill for green mortgage surveyors



9 Feb -

Sactra report must lead to cuts in road-building



10 Feb -

Food victory as Government pulls plug on genetically modified crop



11 Feb -

Oil spill legacy remains two years after sea empress disaster



12 Feb -

Foe group condemns monster millennium dome car park



12 Feb -

Government to evict local people for toll road it promised not to build



13 Feb -

Quarrying company told to stop extracting limestone in national park



16 Feb -

"chapter and verse" demanded as Government promises u-turn on regional policy



16 Feb -

Survey shows british road tax favours gas guzzlers



17 Feb -

Show green cons the red card says foe



17 Feb -

Foe hails Government u-turn on regional policy



18 Feb -

Budget '98 - british road tax " a gift for greedy gas-guzzlers"



18 Feb -

Millennium eco-village: fine until you look next door



20 Feb -

Money walks in indonesia as forest fires rage again



23 Feb -

Prescott fails to relieve pressure on countryside



27 Feb -

Foe accuses duke of "double standards" over countryside



28 Feb -

A real future for our countryside - a green alternative to Countryside Alliance



3 Mar -

Fare figures show urgent need for tax changes to promote public transport and reduce road traffic



4 Mar -

Turning murdoch green



6 Mar -

Dead wood at the Ministry of Defence - Brazilian mahogany buying scandal



7 Mar -

Cut the jams: cut the bills



9 Mar -

Natwest survey shows strong support for leaving the car at home



10 Mar -

Treasury under fire on green taxes - commons committee says government all talk and no action



10 Mar -

Treasury flip-flops on energy vat change



11 Mar -

Reducing road space can cut traffic - FOE welcomes new report



11 Mar -

Treasury prevents brownfield clean-up - budget will not stop green belt housing threat



12 Mar -

Last chance for chancellor - FOE says 1998 must be year of green budget



14 Mar -

Brazil Ablaze! Amazon Fires could signal "ecological meltdown



15 Mar -

Green budget nobbled? - FOE opens book on next Tuesday's Runners and Riders



16 Mar -

BUDGET CHECKLIST How to Judge Brown's Green Credentials



16 Mar -

Top Wildlife Area Ploughed - SSSI Totally Destroyed



17 Mar -

NOT MUCH GREENER THAN A SMOG ALERT" Friends of the Earth Lashes Brown Over Budget Failure



18 Mar -

"FRANKENSTEIN FOOD" GIVES ICELAND THE SHIVERS Friends of the Earth Welcome Green Move by Supermarket Chain



19 Mar -

COMPLACENCY FANS AMAZON FLAMES - Friends of the Earth International calls for urgent action



19 Mar -

Foe accuses aa of selective distortion of the truth



20 Mar -

Brazil ignored fire fighting help from united nations



20 Mar -

BUDGET: NO RELIEF FOR BLOCKED-UP BRITAIN - But 500 Million on Buses Mild Decongestant, Prescott Told



23 Mar -

Chair admits failure of multilateral investment negotiations



23 Mar -

GOVERNMENT ABANDONS TOP NATURE SITES - Wetland Wildlife Faces Disaster on World Water Day



25 Mar -

Europe's largest forest company faces green protest



25 Mar -

HOUSEBUYERS COULD SAVE HUNDREDS OF POUNDS EACH YEAR MPs Discuss Green Mortgage Surveys Law



25 Mar -

Shamed brazilian Government to accept un help on fires



25 Mar -

US BID FOR UK ENERGY GROUP SLAMMED - Bad for Environment, Bad for Consumers, Says Friends of the Earth



26 Mar -

Locals challenge Government over failed promise to protect ancient forest



26 Mar -

Britain's recycling record - a load of rubbish, says friends of the earth



27 Mar -

Greens launch Unilever "disloyalty card" to protest at genetic bean food experiment



30 Mar -

Foe welcomes local mp's help - over road traffic reduction bill



31 Mar -

DOUNREAY VICTORY AS WASTE SHAFT TO BE CLEANED UP - Friends of the Earth Concerned at Vast Cost to Taxpayer



1 Apr -

FOE FINGERS FILTHY FACTORY - ICI Runcorn: A Story of Failure for the Environment Agency's 2nd Birthday



2 Apr -

Channel 4 savaged by television watchdog over green stitch-up



3 Apr -

Amazon fires warm the world: g8 ministers warned



3 Apr -

Fight climate change to create jobs, g8 summit told



3 Apr -

Double housing blow to prescott



6 Apr -

Support for coal raises mass of contradictions



7 Apr -

"create jobs, save communities, protect environment"



10 Apr -

Labour turns back on peatland protection



12 Apr -

OUR COUNTRYSIDE "A GENETIC LABORATORY" FOR MULTINATIONALS Shock New Research From FOE Shows 300 Genetic Sites



18 Apr -

National Save the Green Belt Rally Takes Place at Stevenage



21 Apr -

Survey reveals public fears over investment treaty



22 Apr -

Georgia nukes contract: tip of the radioactive iceberg



23 Apr -

Three quarters of new homes can be built in towns and cities



23 Apr -

Campaigners attend ici agm to highlight filthy factories



25 Apr -

Labour Dithers As Wildlife Site Destroyed



26 Apr -

Frankenstein food companies named and shamed



30 Apr -

BRITANNIA SCHOOL: COULD DO BETTER New Labour Scores 4/10 on Green Test After Year One



30 Apr -

Green concerns over u.s. takeover of energy group



4 May -

Fuel poverty and energy inefficiency major killers



7 May -

Frankenstein foods threaten organic farmer



8 May -

Farmer fights frankenstein food



8 May -

Shell agm: FOE urges huge increase in green energy investment



13 May -

Domestic Trouble for Clinton at G-8 Summit: U.S. Environmental Leader Criticizes President for Inaction on Global Warming



13 May -

Rio Tinto Dumps on Environment, Ducks Taxes



13 May -

Foe backs green investment company



15 May -

'THREE IN A BED' SCANDAL AT HEATHROW HOTEL FOE Exposes Cosy Times At Mammoth Terminal 5 Inquiry



15 May -

G8's WORLD BANK GLOBAL WARMING SCANDAL EXPOSED Rich Nations, Multinationals Profit From Fossil Fuel Funding



18 May -

Concrete obsessed council turns its nose up at 'the best of both worlds'



18 May -

POETRY FOR EIGHTEEN MILLION PEOPLE Britain's Leading Poets Join FOE to Launch Poetry on the Buses



19 May -

Chemical Industry Tries To Stop Action On Dangerous Hormone Pollution



19 May -

Prescott urged to pull the plug on marsh destruction



20 May -

Hot weather turns heat on prescott - worst pollution of year so far shows need for tough action on transport



21 May -

Bill and ben take peat protest to chelsea flower show



26 May -

Foe calls for urgent action as glaciers melt faster than ever



26 May -

Public to be force-fed frankenstein food propaganda



26 May -

New Councillors Urged to Save Wildlife Haven



28 May -

Greater incentives needed to green the workplace says FOE



29 May -

BRITAIN IS STILL CHOKING FOE Demands Drastic Transport White Paper Action



1 Jun -

Overpackaging is against the law! (or is it?)



2 Jun -

700 million for chunnel rail link must not leave prescott like old mother hubbard



3 Jun -

New law aims to increase recycling



5 Jun -

WARM WELCOME FOR ENERGY REPORT Energy tax can create jobs says FOE



5 Jun -

Weedy wildlife laws threaten right to roam



5 Jun -

TIME TO ACT LIKE "THE FIRST TRULY GREEN GOVERNMENT" FOE Demands Radical Labour Action on World Environment Day



6 Jun -

INVASION OF THE MULTIPLEX MONSTERS - Cinema boom threatens traffic and pollution chaos



8 Jun -

BULLDOZERS THREATEN WILDLIFE HAVENS Roads Planners "Join the Dots" Between National Wildlife Sites



8 Jun -

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH WELCOMES PRINCE'S ATTACK ON GMOs



9 Jun -

NUCLEAR IS NOT ANSWER TO CLIMATE CHANGE: FOE slams Trade and Industry Committee's support for nuclear power



9 Jun -

FOE WELCOMES GOVERNMENT WASTE STRATEGY Urgent action needed to improve UK's "pathetic" recycling record



10 Jun -

Tackling climate change: good for the economy, people and the environment says new FOE report



10 Jun -

'three peaks' mount savaged by sheep



15 Jun -

OFFICIAL REPORT SLAMS SAFETY STANDARDS AT NUKE PLANT Major nuclear accident was possible warns FOE



16 Jun -

Unions and greens groups call on Government to "create jobs through environmental policies"



16 Jun -

WOMEN'S SAFETY: WARM HOMES Government U-Turn Threatens Key Bills



17 Jun -

EU GREENHOUSE GAS DEAL Too Much Hot Air: Not Enough Action



22 Jun -

Renewed FoE Pressure on Mahogany Traders as Logging Season Kicks Off in Brazil



22 Jun -

Council fiddles over destruction of borough's best natural asset



23 Jun -

P.M. OPENS HEATHROW EXPRESS Free Guest Star Appearance Starts Big Payback to BAA



23 Jun -

FOE demands shake-up of "#34 nuclear inspectorate



24 Jun -

Bnfl/westinghouse deal - commons statement demanded



25 Jun -

Government faces court challenge over "#34 ge-crop trial



25 Jun -

RECYCLING SCHEMES COLLAPSE ACROSS BRITAIN Government Waste Strategy in Early Crisis



26 Jun -

Stop backing gas guzzlers: back our kids child health expert in dramatic plea to blair



29 Jun -

Europe Fails on Wildlife Protection



30 Jun -

Government given "kick up backside" over waste



1 Jul -

New law to cut traffic reaches statute book



1 Jul -

Sustainable Development Declaration



2 Jul -

LEAKED REPORT UNDERMINES MIDLAND TOLL MOTORWAY Government's Own Report Shows BNRR A Disaster Waiting to Happen



3 Jul -

Maverick backbencher sabotages energy efficiency bill



7 Jul -

Friends of the Earth: Press Release:



7 Jul -

'birmingham toll road is highway robbery' says middle england



8 Jul -

Foe welcomes english natures call for caution on genetically engineered crops



9 Jul -

Foe calls for Government genetic advisors to be sacked



10 Jul -

Organic farmer to appeal against refusal to allow judicial review of genetic crop



10 Jul -

CONCRETE EVIDENCE OF GOVERNMENT FAVOURS 'Honest John' Prescott's M25 U-turn Shows Bias on Terminal 5



13 Jul -

Powergen: 'generating climate change whatever the weather' time to increase your renewables, says foe



14 Jul -

GOVERNMENT GIVES SOME GOOD GREEN NEWS But Spending Review Still Not Comprehensive Enough



15 Jul -

Organic farmer to appeal against refusal to allow judicial review of genetic crop



15 Jul -

Ministry to Investigate Whernside Sheep Damage



20 Jul -

Green test for prescott - what must be in the transport white paper



20 Jul -

TRANSPORT WHITE PAPER An Important Step Forward, But Traffic Reduction Targets Still Missing



21 Jul -

Court of appeal rules that Government acted illegally over genetic maize trial crop - but refuses to order its destruction



23 Jul -

Channel four sells "distorted" and "misleading" tv programmes abroad



26 Jul -

New Law Call as Wildlife Watchdog Report Published



27 Jul -

New Government Chemicals Strategy Won't Protect Babies



27 Jul -

'Scrap the Dirty Dozen'



29 Jul -

END NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE FOE Launches Campaign To End Foreign Imports



29 Jul -

Brazil logging ban: "fiction"says foe



30 Jul -

MPs SLAM PRESCOTT OVER GREENFIELD HOUSING



30 Jul -

Government acts on timber buying after FOE exposes navy mahogany scandal



31 Jul -

Roads cut but m25 widening is nonsensical



31 Jul -

Meacher puts lid on whernside plan



1 Aug -

PAY UP TO SEE WHERE YOU ARE. EU Slams UK Over Maps "Right to Know" Case



3 Aug -

MEACHER IGNORES PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE ON BIOTECH CROP But Genetic Advisor calls for commercial growing to be halted



4 Aug -

MPs BAN GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD FROM PARLIAMENT. Yet public still expected to eat it.



5 Aug -

Recycling newspapers better than incineration says new report



7 Aug -

Babies at risk near rubbish dumps says lancet



8 Aug -

Foe lists toxics tips in birth defects row



10 Aug -

Stop Frankenstein Experiments! FOE Challenge to Government on Genetic Engineering



10 Aug -

Quango relaunches plan to destroy wildlife haven



11 Aug -

July Hottest Month in World History. FOE Demands Crisis Action on Climate Change



11 Aug -

Bp/amoco hookup threatens return to climate change "dark ages"



12 Aug -

It's a choker! londoners cough and wheeze in worst smog of year



14 Aug -

Guide to Fighting Filthy Factories published



17 Aug -

Chemicals in telephones could scramble your brain



17 Aug -

Brain-damage chemicals in plastics



19 Aug -

Learn to Love the Car! Motor Industry Fights Back On Labour Transport Policy



26 Aug -

Us oil companies polluting our rivers



27 Aug -

Cabinet enforcer cunningham breaks Government policy on sustainable timber



30 Aug -

New genetic food labels con the public. Most modified food won't be labelled says FOE



2 Sep -

Foe calls on environment agency chief to resign



3 Sep -

Prescott plans to defy blair on london's transport



3 Sep -

Too sexy for their genes!



8 Sep -

Don't Dump that Telly! Manufacturers Face New Euro-Law on Recycling White Goods



10 Sep -

Teigngrace - river diversion plan withdrawn



10 Sep -

Foe welcomes new wildlife proposals



11 Sep -

Genebeast Comes to Bath. Greens Step Up Sainsbury's Protest Over Frankenstein Food



14 Sep -

Britain's Brown Electricity. Suppliers Fail Eco-Test on De-Regulation Day.



17 Sep -

Foe welcomes prescott agreement on climate



17 Sep -

New Recycling Law could Save Council Tax Payers Millions. FOE launches Private Members Bill



21 Sep -

Ashdown Warned: No Green Sell-Out in Blair Sweetheart Deal



21 Sep -

Don't destroy rainham marshes says Government's wildlife advisors



22 Sep -

Foe slams alliance and leicester's new energy wasting mortgage



23 Sep -

Government to announce extra support for renewables



23 Sep -

Greens welcome water crackdown



24 Sep -

Foe welcomes Government boost for renewable energy



28 Sep -

FOE Demands New Labour Green Action, Not Words



29 Sep -

German election blow for nuclear privatisation



1 Oct -

Government Treats Planet As a Business in Liquidation. New Green Website Shows How



6 Oct -

EU gas guzzling deal is no substitute for higher fuel duties and traffic reduction



7 Oct -

Royal commission calls for radical changes to Government green policy



8 Oct -

Foe welcomes asda ban on gmo's in new food lines



8 Oct -

Poisoning our children: Britain's toxic chemicals crisis



10 Oct -

Government looks at GM crop ban



12 Oct -

Health Alliance Fights Toxic Chemicals



16 Oct -

Genetic Polluters Escape Scot Free. Government Shambles Means Offenders Escape Prosecution



16 Oct -

Foe calls on dti and treasury to act on climate change



19 Oct -

New green energy projects will help fight climate change



20 Oct -

Supermarket Shoppers Say No To Frankenstein Food. Pressure builds on stores to go GM-free



21 Oct -

Nasty Cider-fects? Greens Expose Pesticide Shocker on UK Apple Day



21 Oct -

Don't swallow Government's GM fudge



21 Oct -

Ministers to give genetic food evidence to lords



23 Oct -

Sellafield mox decision "a farce"



23 Oct -

Will it add up? greens give details of Government's key climate change paper



24 Oct -

Fightback begins over aviation



26 Oct -

Government Climate Change Paper. Principles Welcome but FOE says "Fewer options: more action"



27 Oct -

National alliance will fight airport growth



28 Oct -

Crucial World Climate Summit Starts Monday 2nd November



2 Nov -

Green Economics, Or Just More Budget Blues?



2 Nov -

Recycling means jobs



2 Nov -

Climate summit update



2 Nov -

Baby food in euro-safety shocker



3 Nov -

Carry on consulting. climate change threatens disaster while chancellor gives green tax amber light



3 Nov -

Wildlife Bill Launched



6 Nov -

"Enough is Enough - No More Noise and Pollution"



10 Nov -

The deadly cocktail : debt, deforestation and climate change



12 Nov -

Leaked letter tips US hand at climate talks



13 Nov -

Act on waste, rubbish councils told



14 Nov -

Buenos aires climate inaction plan a disgrace



17 Nov -

Newbury Bypass Set to Open. Bypass marked change in Government roads policy says FOE



18 Nov -

Government Bows to Biotech Industry Again. New law reduces Government information on GM crops



20 Nov -

MPs Agree to GM Ban in Common's Restaurants . But Government still promotes Frankenstein food



23 Nov -

Measure for measure?



23 Nov -

Councils to Government: We Have Green Will, Now Give Us the Powers



24 Nov -

It's a grey queen's speech



25 Nov -

Daffy claims "quackers" says foe



26 Nov -

Give Our Kids a Break! "TrashFormers" Hit Town



27 Nov -

Cheap, Nasty, Horribly Hyped! Trashformer toys: Coming Soon to a Landfill Site Near You



28 Nov -

Parent Protest at Pester Power. Survey Shows Parents Angry as Kids Bombarded With TV Ads



30 Nov -

Killing two birds with new homes



1 Dec -

Protest welcomes Levingtons MD



8 Dec -

Do it now and spend the money on transport



14 Dec -

New alliance to fight aircraft noise



21 Dec -

We need a new wildlife law



30 Dec -

Top restaurants back genetic food ban



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