Past press releases

2002

4 Jan -

Big businesses fail green end of year report

8 Jan -

Stop the Chop - new guide to buying wood without wrecking forests

11 Jan -

Bmj research shows need to fight fuel poverty

11 Jan -

A new deal for rail

11 Jan -

Ex-Prescott Aide Becomes Airline Shill

14 Jan -

A strategic plan for rail?

15 Jan -

16 Jan -

Call for Right to a Healthy Environment for All

16 Jan -

Us steps up pressure on GM food

18 Jan -

Government admits GM Crop Separation Distances are Inadequate

21 Jan -

Top supermarkets back call for more organic farming

22 Jan -

Organic rally targets Government support

22 Jan -

Nuclear power - unsafe, uneconomic, unpopular

23 Jan -

Byers spins on runway!

25 Jan -

Landfill linked to down's syndrome

26 Jan -

Supermarket Power Threatens Countryside

28 Jan -

Business Shares Waldorf Salad with World Leaders

29 Jan -

Curry report only first step towards greener farming

30 Jan -

Massed anne robinsons lash new york fat cats

30 Jan -

Gm separation distances must be at least 5km

31 Jan -

'Reckless' GM trials under fire

4 Feb -

FOE Cheers 'Valiant' Incinerator Campaigners

4 Feb -

Gm safety checks inadequate says royal society

5 Feb -

World economic forum: it's a wrap

11 Feb -

Uk paper firms destroy best rainforest

13 Feb -

Commons report on radioactive waste: FOE comment

14 Feb -

Swerve the SWERF! Derby Council Told: Block New Incinerator Plan

14 Feb -

Energy review: right direction, wrong speed

14 Feb -

Bush's Climate Con

15 Feb -

Barclays Finance of Rainforest Destruction Sparks Protest

20 Feb -

Scientists clash over GM safety

25 Feb -

Foe backs livingstone over congestion-charging

26 Feb -

Tackling risky chemicals on the high street

26 Feb -

Foe slams industry plans for new nuke reactors

27 Feb -

Peat deal saves top UK wildlife sites

1 Mar -

Communities face airport threat

4 Mar -

Fsa threatens to scupper kids' pesticide safety advice

4 Mar -

Eu ratifies kyoto, others must follow

4 Mar -

Campaigners unite to oppose planning reforms

6 Mar -

Europe urged to show steel resolve

6 Mar -

Big cuts in cancer gases achieved

6 Mar -

GM Labelling: Krebs vs Meacher

7 Mar -

Nukes not needed to tackle climate change

10 Mar -

Blair must warn cheney over climate

11 Mar -

Foe calls for 75 per cent increase in rail funding

12 Mar -

Kidderminster says no to 6th west midlands incinerator

13 Mar -

High street league table shows cosmetic chemical risks

13 Mar -

Prescott lobbied over hull incinerator

14 Mar -

Uk quality of life barometer

14 Mar -

Latest pesticide results bad news for children

14 Mar -

Government announces more GM trial sites

14 Mar -

Amec pulls out of yusufeli dam in turkey

14 Mar -

Retailers must reduce pesticide levels in babies' and children's food

19 Mar -

Morgan stanley's controversial projects exposed

21 Mar -

Royal commission criticises planning reforms

22 Mar -

Leading Environmentalists Launch Global Initiative

26 Mar -

Pesticide Safety Advice for Children to be Withdrawn

27 Mar -

MEPs Cave In To Big Business

27 Mar -

Retailers must act on chemical risks, says new study from foe

28 Mar -

Giant white horse rides roughshod over wildlife policy

28 Mar -

Bradwell nuclear power station closes - goodbye nuclear, hello wind

28 Mar -

Government Failing on Carbon Emissions

3 Apr -

Earth summit must act on meas

3 Apr -

Thousands to attend mass lobby for trade justice

4 Apr -

Need for new law on companies' green reporting

5 Apr -

Public-Private Partnerships to Save the World?

8 Apr -

Super-Port Protesters Warn Investors at AGM

12 Apr -

Foe hits back at cbi over green taxes criticisms

15 Apr -

Rail Passengers Hit Back - launch of mass text messaging action

17 Apr -

Brown misses chance for more green spending

19 Apr -

Esso and us succeed in ditching climate chief

22 Apr -

New figures show regions failing on recycling

24 Apr -

Changing trains does not have to take years

25 Apr -

Bank 'exposed' at agm

26 Apr -

Wilson's toxic response to irish protesters

30 Apr -

Gm crops may fan rural conflict

30 Apr -

Gardeners urged to avoid peat this bank holiday

1 May -

Labour's five year record

4 May -

Inquiry fails to find cause of GM crop contamination

4 May -

Cumbrian farmers back local food solutions

8 May -

Protesters blow whistle on amec agm

8 May -

Foe publishes green electricity league table

10 May -

Premier oil: UK company bad in burma, putrid in pakistan

13 May -

Millions of animals used for chemical safety tests? no way, says foe

15 May -

Pesticide company's legal bid to keep toxic secrets

17 May -

Foe backs rac's road-charging call

19 May -

Foe slams super-motorway proposal

20 May -

Foe backs plastic bag tax

20 May -

Leaked Report Shows Government Scrambling to Change GM Law

22 May -

Planet in crisis - take action now

22 May -

Rethink rubbish - think recycling

23 May -

Science: tony gets low marks

26 May -

MPs blow holes in government transport policy

28 May -

Byers but the butt for Government transport failure

28 May -

Nine out of ten people would recycle - so why does UK languish at bottom of euro recycling league?

29 May -

Sorry darling, we're stuck in traffic ...

29 May -

Rainham marshes saved!

30 May -

It's a tunnel, darling

30 May -

Radiohead to support mass lobby for justice in world trade

1 Jun -

Don't let big business rule the world

1 Jun -

Ten planet trashers: why corporate accountability matters

4 Jun -

Euro MPs back GM labels

5 Jun -

6 Jun -

Five years on: transport policy fails the prescott test

7 Jun -

Late result from Bali: US 1 Rest of World 0

7 Jun -

Earth summit beached in bali - talks end with no agreement

11 Jun -

Meacher rewrites history too ...

12 Jun -

New bill calls for corporate responsibility

12 Jun -

Communities highlight waste crisis

14 Jun -

High on hot air, low on commitment - first analysis of draft plan for earth summit

15 Jun -

Communities say no to incineration

19 Jun -

Toxic cocktail in fruit and vegetables

25 Jun -

Gm crop trials undermined by new u.s. evidence

26 Jun -

Mr prescott and the traffic porky pie

1 Jul -

Pesticides banned in baby food - but still in fruit and veg

3 Jul -

Euro MPs back GM labelling

3 Jul -

MPs slam government planning reforms

4 Jul -

Foe slams plans to fast-track new nuclear plants

4 Jul -

Nuclear liabilities rise

8 Jul -

Government announces final GM trial sites

8 Jul -

Councils failing on energy efficiency

9 Jul -

Government GM consultation just a pr offensive - minister

11 Jul -

FOE backs No 10 plans for doorstep recycling

15 Jul -

BNFL Loses 2 Billion

15 Jul -

Spending review: enough new money for farming?

15 Jul -

Brown threatens green belt assault

15 Jul -

Brown fails to tackle britain's trains crisis

15 Jul -

Make a noise to save the planet

17 Jul -

New research questions GM food safety

18 Jul -

People power forces Government rethink on planning proposals

19 Jul -

Regions threatened by massive airport growth

23 Jul -

Government airport plans: bad news for us all

24 Jul -

Environment agency

24 Jul -

The future of railtrack

25 Jul -

Foe welcomes Government advisor's GM caution

25 Jul -

Supermarkets failing to buy UK organic produce

26 Jul -

Government must not ignore public over GM crop commercialisation

27 Jul -

Major retailers pledge to take action on risky chemicals

29 Jul -

Organic action plan welcomed

31 Jul -

Giant sound sculpture makes airwaves for earth summit

5 Aug -

Government's new air quality targets

5 Aug -

One in Four Councils to Miss Recycling Targets

6 Aug -

Foe will pay for meacher to go to earth summit

7 Aug -

New residue data shows need for pesticide action

7 Aug -

Supermarkets must act on pesticides

8 Aug -

Meacher back on earth summit team

9 Aug -

Canada slammed over kyoto failure

11 Aug -

Meacher slams labour's eco failings

12 Aug -

New tyne crossing: english heritage sells out

12 Aug -

Asian brown haze - comment

13 Aug -

East midlands road consultation

14 Aug -

New tyne crossing consultants cost locals 30 each

14 Aug -

Uk still dirty man of europe

15 Aug -

How to sabotage a summit: the hidden hand of exxon revealed

15 Aug -

Tyne tunnel decision goes into extra time

15 Aug -

Biotech blunder results in GM trial chaos

15 Aug -

Floods across europe

16 Aug -

Spotlight on corporates reveals need for global rules

19 Aug -

Bad faith! The aviation industry's broken pledges on Heathrow's 3rd runway

20 Aug -

People bear witness to corporate abuse

22 Aug -

New recycling figures revealed

22 Aug -

Tony blair to spend only 5 mins saving planet?

23 Aug -

Tories slammed over earth summit stance

23 Aug -

We laughed, we cried... green oscars awarded in jo'burg

24 Aug -

Foe condemns eu/us bully-boy tactics in jo'burg

24 Aug -

Leadership needed for earth summit

25 Aug -

Porritt right to slam govt

26 Aug -

Earth Summit or Trade Fair?

26 Aug -

Uk pushes voluntary approach at the earth summit

27 Aug -

New plan for sustainable economies

28 Aug -

Meacher gagged at earth summit?

28 Aug -

Earth summit: progress of negotiations

28 Aug -

Eu loses earth summit leadership role

29 Aug -

29 Aug -

Uk launches forest action plan

30 Aug -

Gm seed tests not convincing, says foe

30 Aug -

Whose voice is missing at the earth summit?

30 Aug -

Earth summit: progress of negotiations

30 Aug -

Oil companies colonise turkey

1 Sep -

Will london principles green the city?

1 Sep -

Zambian GM food aid decision highlights global problems

2 Sep -

Blair speech at earth summit

2 Sep -

Shell accepts greenwash lifetime achievement award

2 Sep -

Earth summit end of term report

3 Sep -

Us plots to undermine key summit outcome

3 Sep -

Earth summit dumps on climate

3 Sep -

Kyoto lives - bush foiled again

3 Sep -

Earth summit betrayal

4 Sep -

Powell jeered at earth summit

4 Sep -

Us wrecks earth summit

4 Sep -

Us holds out to the bitter end

5 Sep -

Political declaration + h20 = hot air

5 Sep -

Aborigines challenge rio tinto

5 Sep -

Foe slams nuke industry green claims

5 Sep -

Blair challenged over sustainable development

6 Sep -

Nuclear power not needed to fight climate change

9 Sep -

British energy given 410 million loan

13 Sep -

Government must tackle waste crisis

13 Sep -

Council gives go-ahead to massive stansted expansion

17 Sep -

New 'road users' group: another campaign for more roads

17 Sep -

Government approach to GM reporting is illegal

17 Sep -

Illegal pesticides found in lettuces

17 Sep -

Premier oil finally exits burma

18 Sep -

Govt wants consumers to pay for electric goods recycling

20 Sep -

Consumers reject GM honey

20 Sep -

Countryside alliance barks up wrong tree

20 Sep -

Prescott orders tyne tunnel inquiry

20 Sep -

Government to suppress GM debate

20 Sep -

Nasa warning on climate change

25 Sep -

Government plays down pesticide risks

25 Sep -

Pesticide companies should pay for better testing

26 Sep -

Government extends nuclear lifeline

26 Sep -

Protesters gather over airports threat

30 Sep -

Terrible Ten: Labour's Corporate Backers Exposed

1 Oct -

Trade war looms in eu/us GM label row

2 Oct -

Conference funders win awards for environmental destruction

3 Oct -

Draft european environmental liability law slammed

8 Oct -

Mass trolley action against GM pollution

9 Oct -

Financial sector must act on climate change

9 Oct -

Government survey shows mounting green concerns

14 Oct -

Governments wildlife advisers slam EU GM seed proposals

15 Oct -

New pesticide cocktail report admits concerns

16 Oct -

New roads plan: you're going the wrong way darling

17 Oct -

Commission leaves GM moratorium decision to member states

17 Oct -

Uk opposes EU GM labelling rules

21 Oct -

British fruit growers suffering from supermarket blight

22 Oct -

Gm-free britain campaign launched

23 Oct -

Government gets poor marks for school fruit scheme

23 Oct -

Factory pollution slashed: campaign win for foe

24 Oct -

Darling must give passengers a real voice in new rail franchises

24 Oct -

Western bypasses: experts trash roads plan

28 Oct -

Warning: more storms

28 Oct -

Car efficiency labels - why delay?

31 Oct -

Carbon dioxide levels rising under labour

31 Oct -

Delhi climate talks - update

31 Oct -

Hallowe'en protest at esso hq

1 Nov -

Climate change levy essential to fight climate change

1 Nov -

Delhi talks fail to turn up heat on tackling climate change

4 Nov -

'Aviation Must Pay Its Way' - Minister

5 Nov -

Foe hits out at oil industry

6 Nov -

Consumers left in dark over green electricity

11 Nov -

Heathrow night flights appeal in court

11 Nov -

Green groups join forces to fight new roads in sw

12 Nov -

Us groups stand up for EU chemicals policy

12 Nov -

Pesticides in food: latest results

15 Nov -

Another GM crop scare hits usa

18 Nov -

New Poll Shows Public Back Farmers v Supermarkets

19 Nov -

Make big oil pay for spanish spill disaster

22 Nov -

Public right to know undermined in new pollution treaty

24 Nov -

Morphogenics: us biotech industry out of control?

24 Nov -

Cbi told to stop lobbying against planet

25 Nov -

Uk must do better - new oecd report

25 Nov -

Us pulls out of pollution treaty talks

25 Nov -

Supermarkets fail british apple growers

26 Nov -

Government defeated over new airports

26 Nov -

Joan ruddock to introduce new recycling bill

26 Nov -

Pesticide tax needed to tackle pollution

27 Nov -

Government Waste Strategy

27 Nov -

Pre-budget statement: two steps forward one step back

28 Nov -

Row over right-to-know on hazardous chemicals

29 Nov -

Gm debate descends into farce

29 Nov -

Climate change pollution from aircraft set to soar

29 Nov -

Eu governments fail to commit to full pollution reporting

3 Dec -

Air industry must pay eco taxes says caa

4 Dec -

Foe hits out at Government planning reforms

5 Dec -

Dreaming of a lindane free christmas

5 Dec -

London smog - problems still exist 50 years on

5 Dec -

Mothercare joins retailers tackling risky chemicals

9 Dec -

Government to give go ahead to 2 billion road-building programme?

10 Dec -

Darling raises white flag to roads lobby

11 Dec -

Green xmas: how to cut back on your festive waste

12 Dec -

British energy: yet more huge losses

12 Dec -

More action needed for sustainable farming future

17 Dec -

Climate change fears as 2002 is one of warmest years on record

17 Dec -

Government failing to tackle transport crisis

18 Dec -

Chemical presence in your christmas presents?

18 Dec -

Tesco decision ignores small shops

18 Dec -

Nuclear power isn't the answer to climate crisis

20 Dec -

Yusefeli dam project totters as spie pulls out

20 Dec -

Most landfill sites failing landfill standards

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