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1999

12 Jan -

Residents and FOE team up to oppose kent airfield expansion

12 Jan -

Home insulation saves lives

12 Jan -

Foe welcomes sea empress guilty plea

12 Jan -

Prescott's global warming roadshow - a chance to have your say

13 Jan -

500 roads in london may not meet Government pollution standards

13 Jan -

"newspaper challenge" for michael meacher

14 Jan -

Labour breaks election pledge

15 Jan -

Questions not answered over sea empress

18 Jan -

Named: britain's most polluted roads

20 Jan -

Government advisers split on frankenstein crop approval

20 Jan -

"greenwash" company flogs mahogany beds

21 Jan -

Trade Secretary Plots Foreign Reprocessing Nightmare for Britain

21 Jan -

Lords lose gmo plot

25 Jan -

Council bulldozes top wildlife site

25 Jan -

Supermarket loyalty cards to track GM food threat

26 Jan -

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY CHIEF UNDER FIRE...AGAIN! FOE calls on Lord De Ramsey to quit

27 Jan -

Lex: transport policy from the dark ages

28 Jan -

'GM-FREE FOOD' CONTAMINATED WITH GM INGREDIENTS. Companies breaking EU law on GM labelling

31 Jan -

Restaurants and cafes to label GM ingredients

1 Feb -

Foe lambasts aa's "shameful" fuel tax campaign

2 Feb -

GROUPS CALL FOR FREEZE ON REGIONAL AIRPORTS EXPANSION House of Lords debate airports issue

3 Feb -

FOE SUPPORTS TORY GM MORATORIUM CALL. What about the precautionary principle Mr Blair

3 Feb -

Gm crops: commercial planting possibly weeks away?

8 Feb -

FOE publishes guide to grossly polluting factories

8 Feb -

COMMUNITY RIGHT TO KNOW BILL. FOE Demands Labour Meets Election Pledge on Pollution Facts

9 Feb -

Politicians slammed for "Bickering" over GM food crisis

12 Feb -

FOE Director writes to PM over sacked GM scientist

15 Feb -

RATTY MAKES A COMEBACK! Top Site for "Wind in the Willows" Water Voles Found in East London

17 Feb -

Fears for wildlife in secret GM crops paper

17 Feb -

Monsanto GM fine "pathetic"

17 Feb -

Monsanto in court over GM crop safety

17 Feb -

Hare today, gone tomorrow Species threatened by GM crops

19 Feb -

ACID TEST FOR ENVIRONMENT AGENCY! Put company directors in the dock following Tees acid leak says FOE

22 Feb -

GM freeze: The law's on our side.

23 Feb -

STOP DAMAGING UK COUNTRYSIDE US COMPANY TOLD. Plea to Scotts Co (Ohio) AGM: Leave Britain's peatlands alone

25 Feb -

Foe slams 'nuclear jack' cunningham's opposition to small green energy scheme

1 Mar -

ETHICAL FOREIGN POLICY - A "DAM DISGRACE" Labour Challenged to End Backing for Kurdish Dam Disaster

2 Mar -

Government advice on GM crops blown away by new pollen report

3 Mar -

GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONS SECRET GM HEALTH REPOR. Leaked Papers Show "Voluntary Moratorium" A Sham

4 Mar -

Gm crops harmful to wildlife says new research

9 Mar -

First steps from grey brown's green baby

10 Mar -

Landfill tax hike welcomed

11 Mar -

BAA's HEATHROW 'PROMISES' ARE WORTHLESS PR STUNT

16 Mar -

THREE YEAR GM BAN NOT ENOUGH, SECRET PAPER SHOWS Leaked Government Document Confirms Need For Five Year Freeze

17 Mar -

Foe congratulates sainsbury's on GM food ban

17 Mar -

Budget `99: it was greener than you think

18 Mar -

150,000 PEOPLE TO DIE FROM COLD BY NEXT ELECTION. Friends of the Earth Publishes Death Forecasts for Each MP

21 Mar -

GASPING FOR THE MILLENNIUM. FOE Publishes Pollution Future for UK's Nastiest Roads

22 Mar -

Foe tells blair to stand firm against the hauliers

22 Mar -

Filthy factories named

23 Mar -

Buses:right idea, but prescott's "racehorses" will fall at first fence without legislation

23 Mar -

Shoppers flock to gm-free iceland

24 Mar -

EXXON: STILL TRASHING THE ENVIRONMENT . Ten Years on from Exxon Valdez - New Report Exposes World's Least Green Company

24 Mar -

Lords get it wrong on nuclear waste dump

25 Mar -

Government won't hit recycling targets without new law

25 Mar -

FOE TARGETS TESCO IN NATIONAL GM FOOD CAMPAIGN. Frankenstein takes message to Supermarket of the Year Award

25 Mar -

STOP DESTROYING UK WILDLIFE SITES, US COMPANY TOLD. Environment and Conservation Groups Challenge The Scotts Company

30 Mar -

FOE groans at another Government consultation. - Government action not words needed to support green energy

30 Mar -

"VIETNAMESE" GARDEN FURNITURE SCAM EXPOSED. Shoppers Told: Boycott it to Save Cambodia

30 Mar -

UK'S BIGGEST FARMER PULLS PLUG ON GM TRIALS. FOE Demands Halt to "Unscientific" Tests

31 Mar -

Government plans stake to the heart of water company vampires

31 Mar -

SHOCK GM LEGAL MOVE BY ALL-PARTY MPs. Politicians and FOE Sue Government Over Seed Fast-Tracking

1 Apr -

GM LEGAL ACTION: GOVERNMENT HOISTS WHITE FLAG. FOE/MPs Action A Major Setback for Biotech Industry

9 Apr -

FOE CALLS ON MEACHER TO PLOUGH UP FARM SCALE GM TRIAL. Seed company accused of breaking the law

13 Apr -

50 YEARS OF WILDLIFE PROTECTION? SSSIs Celebrate Half Century: 7th July 1999

13 Apr -

Communities lobby Parliament over "toxic timebombs"

14 Apr -

New pollen research casts further doubt on GM trials

15 Apr -

GOVERNMENT TO BAN LINDANE? EU Report Slams Dangerous Insecticide.

16 Apr -

Government agrees:air travel is serious climate threat

19 Apr -

Monsanto in "slapp" at GM protests

21 Apr -

Biotech industry's GM code won't work

22 Apr -

Ici agm told: "phoo - your record stinks!"

26 Apr -

Pollution hits the poor hardest

26 Apr -

BLAIR URGED: ACT NOW ON POVERTY AND POLLUTION. Call Follows New Research On Pollution/Inequality Link

28 Apr -

Powerful Committee of MPs backs call for national traffic targets

30 Apr -

Bank holiday gardeners urged to boycott peat: Peat industry destroying top British wildlife sites.

10 May -

Eu trade ministers told say no to new world trade round

12 May -

FACTORIES STILL SPEWING OVER 10,000 TONNES OF CANCER-CAUSING CHEMICALS TO AIR. FOE Demands Tougher Pollution Laws

12 May -

Public still denied pollution truth...but EA inventory 'a first step into the light'

13 May -

Advance Notice: WHITE PAPER ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. What It Will Say: What It Should Say

17 May -

Paper tiger? Government publishes sustainable development plan

17 May -

Airport threatens international wildlife site

17 May -

Foe reveals secret nuclear import plan

18 May -

Gm food row: do the research first!

19 May -

Leak reveals Government GM pr offensive

21 May -

Government in GM spin

21 May -

Commercial planting is here already

24 May -

"VIETNAMESE" FURNITURE SCAM EXPOSED. Rainforest Timber Sold at Chelsea Flower Show

26 May -

Government to change law to speed up commercial development of GM crops

26 May -

British food firms going gm-free

30 May -

Filthy factories named

1 Jun -

Foe publishes GM test site list

1 Jun -

Foe backs prince charles over GM fears

2 Jun -

Gm food and antibiotics

3 Jun -

No label on GM tesco pizza - claim

4 Jun -

Aeroplanes threaten the world's climate say top government scientists

7 Jun -

GM Farmer destroys own crop

8 Jun -

Save money: stop reprocessing

9 Jun -

Britain set to be dirty man of europe again ?

10 Jun -

Rural land managers advise clients: don't grow GM crops

12 Jun -

McDonald's removes GMO's

14 Jun -

Royal society lays egg on nukes

15 Jun -

Shock health report shows need for traffic cuts

16 Jun -

Poor hit hardest by transport pollution

16 Jun -

Hormone Pollution Hall of Shame - fish feminising polluters exposed

16 Jun -

Ministers Ignore Major Health Threats

17 Jun -

No place to hide for GM crops

17 Jun -

It's the rich wot gets the pleasure it's the poor wot gets the pollution

18 Jun -

"Cautious Welcome" over new GM Advisers

22 Jun -

Eu environment ministers meet on GM crisis

23 Jun -

FOE WELCOMES NEW CLIMATE CHANGE INDICATORS . Government must stand firm on tackling climate change

24 Jun -

BLAIR DOES GERMANY'S DIRTY WORK. Sources say PM forced UK U-turn on car recycling

25 Jun -

Britain lags behind europe on GM policy

25 Jun -

NO CASH FOR GM LABELS ENFORCEMENT SAYS TRADING STANDARDS. FOE calls for GM levy to pay for monitoring

29 Jun -

Government's New Waste Strategy is Rubbish

29 Jun -

Urban taskforce: FOE says act now!

30 Jun -

Scores of new 'monster' incinerators planned

30 Jun -

Who pays for GM damage? key campaign opens on liability

1 Jul -

Government drops ethical bombshell on City

2 Jul -

Government refuses to release secret dam study

5 Jul -

Uk suffers airports epidemic as councils and businesses go 'plane crazy'

6 Jul -

Public health white paper. no action on healthy air, homes or food

7 Jul -

TIME'S UP FOR WILDLIFE. 50 Years On: Wildlife Laws Failing But Labour Not Acting

8 Jul -

Government food advisers comments "patronising"

9 Jul -

First 'urgent' conference plans radical action on greenfield housing

12 Jul -

WORSE THAN IT EVER WAS. "Freedom of Information Bill" Threatens Key Environmental Rights

12 Jul -

Tories back in the same dead-end street on transport policy

13 Jul -

Sparks fly over green energy con: FOE slams minister over rubbish burning

13 Jul -

Bnfl sell-off could be "giant turkey"

13 Jul -

Time for BA to pay up for pollution

14 Jul -

Hormone chemicals in our tap water. pipe treatments leach chemicals

15 Jul -

FOE welcomes Meacher's plans for climate action

18 Jul -

Brominated flame retardants contaminate blood

19 Jul -

MPs back Climate Levy

19 Jul -

It could be you! GM directors warned over legal liability

19 Jul -

It's in the blood! Chemicals from Computers and Textiles Pollute Blood

20 Jul -

Councils say yes to transport powers

21 Jul -

Ethical funds 'concerned' over vodafone hq plan

22 Jul -

MPs join together to fight for wildlife

24 Jul -

No Economic Case for MOX Nuclear Plant

2 Aug -

Export credit agency: least green of the lot!

6 Aug -

"bog off!" scotts told in peat protest

9 Aug -

Why the GM trials are useless

9 Aug -

Reducing traffic won't harm economy says advisors

16 Aug -

Government urged to stop new GM trials

18 Aug -

FOE welcomes Kennedy stance on GM crops

20 Aug -

Gm trials illegal: FOE launches court challenge

23 Aug -

Dead wood: the shocking legacy of logging

24 Aug -

Wildlife Protection: Britain Comes Last

25 Aug -

Foe blows away prescott's pollution smokescreen

26 Aug -

Government spins into trouble over GM trials

26 Aug -

Nuclear watchdog must come clean on plutonium

27 Aug -

Chelsea Flower Show clamps down on timber 'greenwash'

2 Sep -

Gm food: health monitoring in chaos

7 Sep -

Farmer pulls plug on GM food trials

10 Sep -

Carry on planting!

13 Sep -

Government to allow GM crop secrecy?

14 Sep -

Safety concerns further blow to uneconomic plutonium fuel plant at sellafield

15 Sep -

World must listen to wake-up call on the environment

15 Sep -

Environmnent Agency Failing the Poor (Industrial Pollution)

15 Sep -

Stop the millennium round!

17 Sep -

Government hoists white flag to FOE on GM trials

18 Sep -

Restaurants cut GM ingredients

19 Sep -

NEC garden show targeted by rainforest groups

20 Sep -

Draft waste strategy slammed: FOE says "recycle it and start again"

22 Sep -

Prince Piles Pressure on Blair Over New Wildlife Laws

23 Sep -

Pollution costs us the earth

24 Sep -

Stop the Tide of Destruction Mr Blair

29 Sep -

VICTORY FOR THE SOUTH EAST COUNTRYSIDE. Two new national parks announced - the South Downs and the New Forest

29 Sep -

GM CROPS: GENETIC POLLUTION PROVED. GM Pollen Found Miles from Trial Site

1 Oct -

British nuclear industry also risks serious accident

4 Oct -

Lancet to publish Pusztai's GM food research

6 Oct -

Tories plot new roads nightmare

8 Oct -

Housing nightmare for south east

11 Oct -

Local group wins right to appeal to high court against airport expansion

13 Oct -

Public won't tolerate GM tolerance levels

15 Oct -

Foe welcomes publication of GM potato research

18 Oct -

Leading green groups urge pm to keep climate target

18 Oct -

Britain's first organic wine guide launched

21 Oct -

Axe hangs over south east countryside: green belt under threat as councils revolt over "sheer madness" of housing plans

21 Oct -

Foe comment on food ethics report on gmo's

25 Oct -

Government Nuclear Waste U-turn?

27 Oct -

Latest Government GM spin: FOE's five tests

30 Oct -

Gender bending pesticide found in baby food

4 Nov -

Labour's Day of Wildlife Shame as Cardiff Barrage Closes

5 Nov -

Government GM deal: business as usual

6 Nov -

National Trust urged: Go Peat Free

8 Nov -

National Trust Bans Peat

9 Nov -

Pre-budget statement: green with brown edges

9 Nov -

Do You Really want to Invest in Rainforest Destruction?

10 Nov -

Foe dismisses 'one-sided' aviation industry report

11 Nov -

Farm scale trials should be abandoned

17 Nov -

The queen's greens

22 Nov -

HOUSING: SOUTH WEST NEXT UNDER THE BULLDOZER? House builders seek 300,000 new greenfield homes

30 Nov -

Foe welcomes blair rethink on new housing

1 Dec -

Urgent action needed to stop winter deaths

1 Dec -

FOE Backs Brussels plan for a levy on aircraft emissions

8 Dec -

Green indicators show threats to environment and quality of life

13 Dec -

Prescott Transport Policy - comment

13 Dec -

Prescott's transport policy: "old, new borrowed and blue"

14 Dec -

Drop the dam, tony!

15 Dec -

Dig them up! GM farmers urged to remove illegal crops

16 Dec -

Government plots toxic future

16 Dec -

Japanese Say NO to UK Nuclear Fuel

17 Dec -

European parliament bans GM food

21 Dec -

Government 'minded' to support dam

22 Dec -

Monsanto canteen bans GM ingredients

22 Dec -

Venezuela: more catastrophes inevitable

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