Past press releases

2003

2 Jan -

Flood alert - it's climate change



2 Jan -

Gm contamination - Government experts disagree



6 Jan -

New year, new director for friends of the earth



9 Jan -

Taxpayers face 3 billion bail out for british energy



9 Jan -

Morrisons take-over bad news for consumers



10 Jan -

Us threat over GM food



13 Jan -

Ten reasons supermarket mergers are bad for consumers



14 Jan -

Farmers and consumers must have a say in wal-mart takeover



15 Jan -

Gm beet research answers very few questions



16 Jan -

Rail cuts



16 Jan -

Incinerators still bad news as pollution standards tightened



17 Jan -

Big business meets with politicians on Swiss ski slopes



22 Jan -

Gm debate fiasco



22 Jan -

Devon votes to go gm-free



22 Jan -

Car drivers must face up to congestion crisis



24 Jan -

Pollution right to know treaty - final round



24 Jan -

Does big business care? - results of wef challenge 2002



24 Jan -

Friends of the earth director detained in Davos



29 Jan -

Apologise or face legal action Friends of the Earth warns wef



29 Jan -

Secret meet at WEF to share Iraqi oil spoils?



29 Jan -

Big business debate in the midlands



30 Jan -

Government plans cuts in fuel poverty



31 Jan -

New pollution treaty improves right-to-know



31 Jan -

Stop safeway stitch up, alliance demands



1 Feb -

Friends of the earth director demands better business in the midlands



1 Feb -

Safeway stitch up must be stopped, alliance demands



3 Feb -

Nuclear chief quits



5 Feb -

Is tesco spin on safeway takeover a joke? asks friends of the earth



5 Feb -

AMEC challenged over bribery cover-up at EGM



6 Feb -

Gm debate chair slams government



6 Feb -

Traffic levels increase again



10 Feb -

UK Paper Companies Supporting Indonesian Rainforest Destruction



12 Feb -

Americans Hold Back Progress on Earth Summit Agreements



13 Feb -

War against iraq: why we are opposed



14 Feb -

South hams goes gm-free



14 Feb -

Green groups attack Government over congestion charge cowardice



17 Feb -

Congestion charge



17 Feb -

Friends of the earth backs mayor over congestion charge



17 Feb -

Safeway decision must wait for oft review of supermarket code of practice



19 Feb -

Lake district national park to host GM debate



20 Feb -

Government agrees to delay GM debate



20 Feb -

Turn off the tap on corporate lobbyists



21 Feb -

Landfill sites hit house prices



21 Feb -

Energy White Paper Briefing



24 Feb -

Goodbye nuclear, hello wind



24 Feb -

Sustainable development: heading backwards?



25 Feb -

Are our services safe?



26 Feb -

Government admits transport social exclusion, but ducks changes



26 Feb -

Latest food pesticide data



27 Feb -

South gloucestershire votes to go gm-free



27 Feb -

Airport consultation: from bad to worse



1 Mar -

Urgent action needed to meet kyoto targets



3 Mar -

Top briefs say pants to gm



3 Mar -

Aviation industry must be taxed



4 Mar -

Tyne tunnel: protests at start of inquiry



5 Mar -

Friends of the earth slams EU plans for growing GM crops



10 Mar -

South coast councils to sign controversial waste contract



10 Mar -

Listing rules to go green



10 Mar -

New international report shows threats of water privatisation



12 Mar -

MPs vote on new recycling law



12 Mar -

South coast councils approve waste contract



13 Mar -

Spivs sell off public services through the wto



14 Mar -

MPs back new recycling law



14 Mar -

Government consults on the environmental cost of aviation



17 Mar -

Supermarket code fails farmers



19 Mar -

Uk votes to keep highly toxic pesticide



20 Mar -

Met office climate change warning



21 Mar -

Think tank calls for air expansion re-think



21 Mar -

Credibility of GM debate hangs by a thread



21 Mar -

Let the public have a say on waste



24 Mar -

No public money for new oil



26 Mar -

New analysis casts doubt on GM farm scale evaluations



28 Mar -

Calder Hall Reactor Shuts: Last Post Sounds for Nuclear Power



28 Mar -

It's No Secrett Any More: Director's Last Day at Friends of the Earth



31 Mar -

Friends of the Earth Launches Online UN Antiwar Protest



1 Apr -

Cornwall goes GM free



3 Apr -

Government must consider road pricing, say MPs



4 Apr -

Finningley go-ahead makes mockery of airport consultation



8 Apr -

Gm jury challenges fsa policy on labelling



9 Apr -

Brown reduces incentives to go green



10 Apr -

Friends of the earth welcomes withdrawal of concorde



12 Apr -

Local campaigners call for gm-free britain election pledge



15 Apr -

Associated british ports challenged over dibden bay



15 Apr -

Smoking firm under fire



17 Apr -

Rio tinto exposed for mining impacts in indonesia



23 Apr -

Shell faces international protest at agm



23 Apr -

Government waste targets failure attacked



23 Apr -

Shell's neighbours demand action from chairman watts



24 Apr -

Dorset demands caution over GM crops



25 Apr -

South African Pollution Scandal EXPOSED at Anglo-American AGM



28 Apr -

GM Free Food Could Become "Impossible", Government Advisers Warn



29 Apr -

BAe faces AGM protest over depleted uranium weapons



29 Apr -

Green groups in 5 countries file oecd protest over baku pipeline



30 Apr -

Kuoni travel pulls out of burma



30 Apr -

Why the safewat take-over must be stopped



2 May -

Shell record profits at expense of people and the planet



2 May -

Passenger growth figures conjured out of thin air



6 May -

Friends of the earth rubbishes Government on waste



7 May -

Eu commission delays chemical reform



8 May -

Pipeline protest at amec agm



8 May -

Government failing to regulate supermarkets, says new report



9 May -

Prestige Compensation A "Grim Joke"



9 May -

Government urges MEPs to vote for GM food.



12 May -

Europe needs economic change



12 May -

Baa demand for new runways reckless and irresponsible



13 May -

Us files wto GM complaint



13 May -

Trade committee to Government on company law: "get on with it".



13 May -

Giant white horse illegal claims brussels



14 May -

Gm trade war - who decides what we eat?



15 May -

Olympic Bid: Only a Green Bid Will Win



16 May -

G8 drops plans for business standards, fails developing nations



19 May -

Government may ignore public opinion on GM crops



20 May -

Freedom to fly's cliffe airport joke



20 May -

Warwickshire goes gm-free



21 May -

Top think tank calls for airport expansion rethink



22 May -

Government still failing on recycling, new statistics show



22 May -

Thames Gateway: Sham consultation starts on motorway-style bridge



22 May -

EU Environment Committee Votes for Stronger GM Laws



27 May -

Royal society raises GM crop doubts



28 May -

Government launches GM public debate - say no says foe



28 May -

Egypt withdraws from wto GM complaint



30 May -

1000 Stores Back Risky Chemicals Pledge



30 May -

Hsbc - profiting at the expense of people and the planet



1 Jun -

Ministers try to stop GM food labels



2 Jun -

Government must address GM debate chaos say groups



2 Jun -

G8 Declaration Puts Bad Business First



3 Jun -

Rich countries' contribution to climate change growing



3 Jun -

Nuclear folly



3 Jun -

Government launches GM debate



5 Jun -

Slow progress on pesticide residues



5 Jun -

Government must clarify role of GM debate



5 Jun -

Global call for moratorium on controversial bp pipeline



6 Jun -

Government must intervene over mail train cut



6 Jun -

London congestion charge cuts traffic



8 Jun -

Road charging needed to cut traffic



9 Jun -

Divisions on investment threaten wto agreement



10 Jun -

Government backs recycling bill



12 Jun -

Radiohead back weekend push for trade justice



12 Jun -

Chemicals of concern named and shamed



13 Jun -

UN Treaty regulating GM to become law



13 Jun -

Blair sacks meacher



13 Jun -

Fat-cat tesco: putting on the pounds at farmers' expense



16 Jun -

Darling must sort out rail shambles to help tackle road congestion



18 Jun -

Gm study highlights need for urgent rethink over GM crops



18 Jun -

Eu meets us over GM trade war



19 Jun -

Rail fare increases slammed



20 Jun -

Gm trade war accelerates



22 Jun -

Uk cosmetics industry risks tiger forests



23 Jun -

Free Trade Myths Behind Push for WTO Investment Agreement Exposed



24 Jun -

Putin to Face Kyoto Protest



24 Jun -

UK's biggest ever nationwide MP lobbby



24 Jun -

Supermarkets must be blocked from safeway takeover



25 Jun -

MPs call for extension to GM national debate



25 Jun -

Top UK Rainforest Paper Buyers Named and Shamed



26 Jun -

Royal commission hits out at "unacceptable" risks from chemicals



28 Jun -

Hewitt changes rules as 500 MPs get message on trade justice



30 Jun -

Government green scheme flops as businesses don't sign up



1 Jul -

Asda/Wal-Mart Exploits Planning Loophole



1 Jul -

Government opposes tough euro GM rules



2 Jul -

MEPs back tougher GM labels



8 Jul -

Fat cats fight over Safeway. Consumers and Farmers are Real Losers



8 Jul -

Heathrow Night Flights Case



8 Jul -

Eu citizens demand protection from chemicals



9 Jul -

Darling's Concrete Plans: New Road Schemes Threatened



10 Jul -

New maps reveal massive extent of GM pollution threat



11 Jul -

Government report on economics of GM crops



11 Jul -

FOE Goes to EU Ombudsman in WTO Complaint



14 Jul -

Garden Pesticides Health Warning



14 Jul -

Green light for wind energy



14 Jul -

Cross-Party MPs Tell Blair to Drop Investment Agreement



14 Jul -

Tesco Sells Garden Furniture Made From Illegal Indonesian Timber



16 Jul -

Supermarkets continue to shun GM food



17 Jul -

MPs back airport expansion



17 Jul -

Export Funding Body's Green Record Slammed



18 Jul -

Shropshire goes gm-free



18 Jul -

Government to publish GM science review



18 Jul -

Scepticism as GM debate ends



18 Jul -

BAA AGM: Pinnochio Comes to Town



21 Jul -

Pesticide review fails consumers and farmerss



21 Jul -

Uncertainty over GM safety



22 Jul -

Lake district national park first to go gm-free



23 Jul -

Sainsbury's: making life taste bitter for banana growers



23 Jul -

Eu commission calls GM contamination of organic food to be allowed



23 Jul -

Brussels to Probe British Energy Rescue



24 Jul -

Cumbria goes gm-free



24 Jul -

British Energy Lawyers Warn FOE Over Brussels Letters Leak



25 Jul -

Hundreds of pesticides banned



25 Jul -

"Deplorable" Attack on GM Scientific Critic



25 Jul -

Government warns GM farmers over contamination threat



28 Jul -

Illegal GM contamination threat



29 Jul -

Privy council to hear belize dam challenge



29 Jul -

MPs say air expansion is "irresponsible"



30 Jul -

Put Tony in Your Pocket and Curb the Powers of the WTO



30 Jul -

Prescott's Wishful Thinking?



30 Jul -

Privy Council Will Hear Appeal on Belize Dam



31 Jul -

Traffic Levels Still Rising



1 Aug -

East Riding Goes GM-Free



5 Aug -

Will blair turn down the heat?



12 Aug -

Smog Smashes Health Limits in Summer Scorcher



13 Aug -

Not again! Fishing, Mangroves, Wildlife Threatened by Karachi Oil Spill



13 Aug -

Belize Dam Injuction Refused



14 Aug -

Eco-Trashing Peat Plant to Shatter Village Quiet



15 Aug -

English Councils Missing on Energy Efficiency



15 Aug -

US Takes Next Step in GM Trade War



22 Aug -

Shout About Friends of the Earth's New Education Week on Waste



22 Aug -

Pilgrims to join tractors and trolleys against gm



26 Aug -

SRA Funding Cuts Cause Councils to Lose Faith in Rail



28 Aug -

One in Four Authorities Show No Improvement in Recycling



3 Sep -

Local authorities can still apply for gm-free zones



3 Sep -

Baby food samples pesticide-free



4 Sep -

Blair Challenged Over WTO



4 Sep -

Wto rules set to devastate biodiversity



8 Sep -

Russia faces storm of protest over climate change



9 Sep -

UK plc in Latin America



10 Sep -

D day for ghost ships



10 Sep -

Toxic ghost ships to set sail within days



10 Sep -

Bristol goes GM-free



10 Sep -

Seattle ingredients present in cancun



11 Sep -

Public bite back in GM trade war



12 Sep -

High risk of toxic ghost ships leaking says us Government report



15 Sep -

Wto talks collapse



17 Sep -

Don't let ghost ships into UK waters



17 Sep -

Supermarkets five year failure to cut pesticides in fruit and veg



18 Sep -

Ghost ships firm ducks environmental assessment challenge



21 Sep -

Government to give GM crops the green light?



22 Sep -

Regions lose out as aviation industry rakes in �9 billion public subsidy



23 Sep -

Water Industry Must Protect Our Precious River Habitats



23 Sep -

New Warning on Triclosan Threat



24 Sep -

National debate rejects GM food and crops



25 Sep -

Brighton goes gm-free



25 Sep -

Fuel tax rises are needed



25 Sep -

Pilgrimage for a GM-free Britain



25 Sep -

Chemicals Legislation Weakened



25 Sep -

Fuel tax rises necessary, says friends of the earth



26 Sep -

Warning over safeway takeover



27 Sep -

Aviation: the plane truth



28 Sep -

Biotech firm's failed bid for GM crop secrecy



29 Sep -

Meacher urges consumers to 'bite back' against GM bullying by usa



29 Sep -

Teesside Bucket Brigade Launches



29 Sep -

Big business in Bournemouth



29 Sep -

Us ghost fleet may be sent back warns environment agency



29 Sep -

Beckett's green speech



30 Sep -

Fuel tax: why the chancellor has got it right



1 Oct -

Public Loses as British Energy Rescue Passes Latest Hurdle



1 Oct -

Exposed Awards - The Winners Are...



1 Oct -

Environment agency slammed over ghost ships decision



2 Oct -

Gm crops fail trials test



3 Oct -

Court allows first 'ghost fleet' ships to leave us



4 Oct -

UK Coast Guard Gives Ghost Fleet the Green Light



6 Oct -

Environment Agency Faces Legal Challenge Over Ghost Fleet



7 Oct -

Tractors and Trolleys Line Up for GM Protest



7 Oct -

Ghost Ships Do Not Have Planning Permission - Official



9 Oct -

Ban GM Oilseed Rape Now



9 Oct -

Ghost Ships Must Not Be Dealt With in Wet Dock, says Environment Agency



14 Oct -

New law to boost england's rubbish league table position - doorstep recycling to become reality



16 Oct -

Gm crops: blair who do you represent, the british people, or bush and the multi-nationals?



18 Oct -

Proposed tax hike for gas-guzzlers welcomed



21 Oct -

Government bows to Asda pressure over massive supermarket expansions



21 Oct -

Co-op says no to gm



27 Oct -

Threat of More Incinerators



28 Oct -

New Rules Leave Consumers Exposed to Hazardous Chemicals



29 Oct -

World Bank Delays Pipeline Decision



29 Oct -

Slimmed-Down REACH Needs Healthy Supplements



29 Oct -

Bournemouth Goes GM-Free



30 Oct -

"ghost" ship inquiry to take evidence from friends of the earth



30 Oct -

High court battle to save wildlife from ghost fleet



31 Oct -

Environment agency backs down over ghost fleet



31 Oct -

GM Scientists Must Face Reality



3 Nov -

Ghost fleet must be refused entry to UK waters



3 Nov -

Winning London School Pupils Meet Environment Minister



3 Nov -

UK Drinks Its Way Towards Bottom of EU recycling league



4 Nov -

Government's wildlife watchdog in firing line



4 Nov -

Europe Caves in to US pressure on GM Sweetcorn



4 Nov -

Environment Agency in Court over Toxic Ghost Fleet



5 Nov -

Environment Groups Slam BP Benn for Caving In



6 Nov -

Toxic Ships May Be Given Temporary Harbour



6 Nov -

BAT Finally Sees the Light



6 Nov -

Ghost fleet injuncted



7 Nov -

Ghost Ships To Go To Hartlepool



8 Nov -

Ghost Ships - Fact Not Fiction



10 Nov -

Government Must Answer Crucial Ghost Ship Questions



11 Nov -

Fears for new countryside watchdog



12 Nov -

First Ship Arrives in Hartlepool



13 Nov -

Campaigners back mps' call for national approach on port decisions



13 Nov -

Pesticide Industry Should Pay For Safe Disposal of Its Products



13 Nov -

Prestige Victims Short Changed One Year On



14 Nov -

Cbi "playing a dirty game"



17 Nov -

The Newbury Bypass Five Years On



18 Nov -

United states 'ghost' ships: urgent evidence session



18 Nov -

Supermarkets Abandoning UK Fruit Farmers



18 Nov -

President bush: "one of the world's arch environmental villains"



18 Nov -

USA sets precedent for dumping its waste overseas



19 Nov -

Eu law to ban import of toxic ghost ships



25 Nov -

Government's GM advisor calls for new contamination and liability laws



25 Nov -

GM Crops Lead to More Pesticide Use



26 Nov -

Safe Disposal Must Be Found For Four Ghost Ships



1 Dec -

Biodiversity challenge - no time for complacency



1 Dec -

Government boost for renewable energy



1 Dec -

Mandelson "misled select committee"



2 Dec -

Privy Court Hearing for Belizean Dam Appeal



3 Dec -

Incinerator Tax Needed to Level Playing Field for Recycling



4 Dec -

Ghost Ships in Court Battle



4 Dec -

Pesticides Still in Apples, Lettuce and Potatoes



4 Dec -

New Tax Could Cut Pesticide Use



5 Dec -

Eu GM food safety committee fails first test



5 Dec -

Gm sweet corn may get green light in europe



6 Dec -

Green groups call for air tax rise



8 Dec -

GM Moratorium Holds



8 Dec -

Planning Permission Retail Loophole Must Be Closed



8 Dec -

Friends of the earth ghost ship court victory



9 Dec -

Kyoto Agreement on Climate Change Gets Nearer



9 Dec -

M6 Toll Road Opens



9 Dec -

Big Motor, Low Tax



10 Dec -

Pre-Budget Statement: Missed Opportunity to Cut Pesticide Use



10 Dec -

Treasury threat to planning system



10 Dec -

Airport Expansion Will Wreck UK Climate Change Targets



10 Dec -

Chancellor ducks environmental challenge ... again



11 Dec -

Able UK not allowed to landfill ghost ship PCBs



11 Dec -

Happy Christmas from Friends of the Earth



12 Dec -

Climate Talks End



15 Dec -

New Planning Guidance will not stop decline of town centres



15 Dec -

Ghost ships - local residents win court case



16 Dec -

Airline "congestion charge" could give 9 billion



16 Dec -

Aviation: Government abandons environmental responsibilities



17 Dec -

Ghost ships: no planning permission for dry dock



18 Dec -

Recycling: on course to miss targets despite rise



18 Dec -

$150m to support Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline is politically motivated



19 Dec -

Environmental Review of the Year 2003



19 Dec -

Six UK GM seed applications withdrawn by Bayer



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