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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