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2001

5 Jan -

Toxic incinerator ash used in london's roads

12 Jan -

Home-sellers' packs must include energy advice

15 Jan -

Europe won't swallow GM wheat. GM bread: More dough for Monsanto

16 Jan -

Nfu should push for greener farming says foe

16 Jan -

Government breaks green pledge for home-sellers pack

19 Jan -

FOE welcomes EU U-turn on farming. Fischler backs greener agriculture production

22 Jan -

Foe slams environment agency incineration forecasts

22 Jan -

Climate change: Politicians must act now. UN scientists issue dire warning

24 Jan -

Wto to hold next ministerial in qatar

24 Jan -

Shell in court over pakistan park scandal

24 Jan -

Politicians sip mulled wine with business fat cats. Counter Summit also gathers in alpine resort to plan campaigns

25 Jan -

United states calls for climate talks delay

25 Jan -

Government Publishes Sustainable Development Report. Economy improves: Environment doesn't

31 Jan -

Chemicals in the Home: A parents' guide

2 Feb -

US firm still destroying top UK wildlife sites. FOE calls for action on World Wetlands Day

2 Feb -

$300 billion cost of climate change

6 Feb -

Toxic secrecy slammed

7 Feb -

Government GM Safeguards

7 Feb -

Gm crops still a risk

8 Feb -

Foe announces new management team

8 Feb -

You Can Be Sure of Shell. Huge UK profits fund wildlife destruction abroad

12 Feb -

GM Moratorium Must Stay Says FOE

13 Feb -

Eurocrats bow to chemical industry

14 Feb -

Hastings bypass. don't turn a blind eye mr prescott!

14 Feb -

New euro GM rules don't go far enough, says foe

14 Feb -

FOE calls on Prescott to stop bypass. No more Hastings eyesores!

15 Feb -

Nuclear Industry turns to Renewable Energy

19 Feb -

Mum's army battle's risky chemicals

19 Feb -

Rich nations must cut fossil fuels

23 Feb -

Warm words but cold homes: fuel poverty strategy falls short

26 Feb -

Maff allows restricted pesticide on GM crops

26 Feb -

Foot and mouth may hit GM trials

28 Feb -

Two thirds of grapes contain pesticide residues

28 Feb -

Gm trials: expansion = contamination

2 Mar -

Foe calls for action on agriculture

5 Mar -

World can tackle climate change says un

5 Mar -

PM's green speech. FOE Says: Let's See Some Action!

5 Mar -

FOE urges local people to oppose GM trials. A threat to the environment and local livelihoods.

6 Mar -

EU Ministers urged to stand up for public health, not the chemical industry

6 Mar -

Boots targeted as mums' army battles risky chemicals

6 Mar -

Blair's green speech: now it's time for action

7 Mar -

Budget 2001: Green yesterday but Brown today

12 Mar -

FOE calls for tougher recycling targets. New report highlights UK recycling successes

13 Mar -

No release for farmers from supermarket arm-lock. Leaked draft report shows new Code of Practice watered down.

14 Mar -

Bush deals blow to world climate deal

14 Mar -

Balfour beatty told: drop ilisu dam

19 Mar -

Hastings alliance launched

20 Mar -

Commission tries to keep UK law-breaking secret

20 Mar -

Kennedy puts environment at heart of lib dem campaign.

21 Mar -

MPs rubbish Government waste strategy.

21 Mar -

Balfour beatty faces shareholder challenge.

26 Mar -

Foe criticises new tory transport policy

26 Mar -

Gm research to go ahead in foot and mouth zones

28 Mar -

Foe calls for ethical pension information

28 Mar -

Government announces new roads

28 Mar -

Bush rats on climate treaty

28 Mar -

Sainsbury's misled customers on pesticides

29 Mar -

Pressure grows for action on risky chemicals

31 Mar -

Kidderminster incinerator protest

2 Apr -

Foe stages rio tinto jabiluka protest

3 Apr -

Gm trials to go ahead in foot and mouth zones.

4 Apr -

Foot and mouth threat from GM trials

4 Apr -

Blair should back foot and mouth inquiry

5 Apr -

18 offshore wind farms unveiled

5 Apr -

Climate protest floods bush white house

7 Apr -

Council to decide on controversial incinerator

9 Apr -

Thumbs down for incinerator plan

10 Apr -

Prescott faces hastings bypasses legal challenge

12 Apr -

Lindane lurking in easter treats

13 Apr -

Don't buy peat this easter

17 Apr -

Pollution in labour's heartlands

18 Apr -

Organic apples win productivity and taste trials

19 Apr -

Foot and mouth: disposal of animal remains

23 Apr -

Government slammed over foot and mouth. FOE Research Reveals Lack of Action After Official Warnings

25 Apr -

Shell plans to exploit Pakistan wildlife haven. Friends of the Earth to challenge oil giant in Karachi court.

25 Apr -

Designated landfill sites not being used to take animal carcasses. communities face unnecessary pollution fears.

30 Apr -

Gardening industry told: stop peat deception

2 May -

Balfour beatty faces agm protest over ilisu dam

2 May -

FOE welcomes Lib Dems green pledges. Green Challenge to Other Parties.

3 May -

Government challenged over secret nuclear plans

7 May -

Cull MAFF now! But FOE Warns Against

8 May -

Supermarket code

8 May -

Hormone disruptor found in can linings

9 May -

Shell pulls out of pakistan national park

9 May -

Election and the environment

10 May -

Tories scrape bottom of oil barrel with election petrol bribe

10 May -

Labour pledges: nothing on environment (again)

14 May -

14 May -

Will labour go green, grey or brown?

16 May -

Labour manifesto: hardly enough green for a fig leaf

16 May -

Nuclear profits crash again. Government must heed warning

17 May -

Bush to planet earth: drop dead!

17 May -

Don't destroy tiger territory.

18 May -

Greens point way for grey parties

21 May -

Fury over welsh GM trial site

21 May -

Biotech industry abandons controversial GM trial site

21 May -

Tories lose the plot on green taxes

23 May -

'new' ici faces same old environmental challenges

23 May -

Politicians must stop ignoring green issues

23 May -

Over-packaged fruit is bananas says foe

24 May -

Government faces legal challenge over nuke plant

25 May -

Dioxins may be in milk near foot and mouth pyres

29 May -

Portillo's climate claims

31 May -

Election: how green are the parties

31 May -

Pesticides in our food: latest Government figures

1 Jun -

Tory environment manifesto

4 Jun -

Tories' business backers: are they ethical?

4 Jun -

Labour's business backers: are they ethical?

5 Jun -

World environment day: last chance to make this a green election

5 Jun -

Europe calls for tough recycling targets

6 Jun -

Green cross code election poll: candidates' results

6 Jun -

Foe slams us over voluntary measures to tackle climate change

11 Jun -

The new whitehall: will it be greener?

11 Jun -

Eu ministers cripple sustainability strategy

13 Jun -

Broad alliance calls for big changes in UK farming

14 Jun -

Foe slams selfish bush over climate change

19 Jun -

Planning changes bad for the environment

19 Jun -

FOE welcomes UK's first wind turbine factory

20 Jun -

Pro-incinerator report slammed

21 Jun -

Government Caves In To Legal Challenge On Plutonium Secrecy

21 Jun -

The Great Food Gamble. New GM Report Questions Safety Claims

25 Jun -

More from less: FOE's new environmental summary

26 Jun -

Rainforest paper floods UK market

26 Jun -

Eu ministers discuss next steps for saving climate treaty

28 Jun -

Bnfl losses: national audit office must step in

29 Jun -

Gm giant fights to keep documents secret

2 Jul -

Ilisu dam: statement expected shortly

2 Jul -

Climate treaty still under threat

2 Jul -

Foe congratulates co-op on pesticides action

3 Jul -

Government publishes ilisu dam report

5 Jul -

Pronk suggests kyoto timetable delay

7 Jul -

Hastings: new jobs without new roads

9 Jul -

New league table shows stores' pesticide performance

10 Jul -

Foe challenges ftse4good to deliver

12 Jul -

Climate change worse than predicted say scientists

12 Jul -

Byers rejects hastings bypasses

13 Jul -

Protest is a right: violence is wrong

15 Jul -

Research shows bypasses not needed for regeneration

16 Jul -

Japan threat to climate talks

17 Jul -

Globalisation not the answer to farming problems

18 Jul -

Us risks becoming a rogue state over climate change

20 Jul -

Planning changes bad for the environment and democracy

23 Jul -

Trials in Error - failure to consult on new GM trial sites

23 Jul -

Kyoto still afloat - but it's taken on water

25 Jul -

Duncan Smith Reveals Green Tory Agenda

25 Jul -

FOE Welcomes Green Technology Challenge

26 Jul -

Government Launches Second Energy Review

26 Jul -

GMO Industry Given Licence to Pollute

26 Jul -

FOE Sounds Caution on Planning Overhaul

27 Jul -

Mox plant set to lose a fortune: Government report reveals

30 Jul -

UK Govt Funding Forest Destruction

2 Aug -

End of the Line for GM in the UK?

3 Aug -

Government renewables plan: good idea, low targets

5 Aug -

Top Pension Funds Must Raise Their Game

9 Aug -

Government Fails to Stem Traffic Growth

9 Aug -

FOE Welcomes Farming Commission, slams inquiry into foot and mouth.

10 Aug -

UK Tops EU Illegal Timber League

14 Aug -

Stop Threatening to Overturn Other Nations' Food Safety Laws, Group Tell Bush

16 Aug -

Govt. Slammed for Pouring Cold Water on Birth Defect Risk

16 Aug -

Birth Defects and Land Fill

16 Aug -

No improvement in pesticides results

25 Aug -

US Megacorp Takes the Peat out of UK Government

31 Aug -

Mox plant: a giant nuclear turkey

5 Sep -

Premier oil in row over 'loophole' in pakistani wildlife law

7 Sep -

Foe welcomes new GM food code

7 Sep -

Gm giant sues government

10 Sep -

Government blasted over GM crop trials

12 Sep -

Foe to environment agency: get your act together!

14 Sep -

FOE Welcomes Think @bout London

17 Sep -

Government air pollution targets should be tougher

24 Sep -

Chancellor urged not to cave in on climate levy

26 Sep -

Uk among worst in euro food testing league

27 Sep -

Dibden bay given wildlife protection

28 Sep -

Welcome for pollution watchdog's zero tolerance call

1 Oct -

Ilisu dam would breach human rights

1 Oct -

Farming Review Won't Call For Radical Review in Key Areas

3 Oct -

Government faces legal challenge over mox nuke plant

4 Oct -

Premier oil: FOE goes to court in pakistan

5 Oct -

Outrage as premier wins court case in pakistan

8 Oct -

Invest roads cash in railways says foe

9 Oct -

Foe welcomes warning on dibden bay

15 Oct -

Europe must stand firm on GM moratorium

18 Oct -

Pesticide safety advice to be revoked?

18 Oct -

Don't blight stonehenge new alliance warns

18 Oct -

Foe calls for long-term aid for sustainable farming

19 Oct -

Wto: don't retreat behind closed doors

20 Oct -

Energy Saving Taxed Three Times More Than Energy Use

22 Oct -

Mass Parade to Call for Trade Justice

25 Oct -

FOE Calls for Overhaul of Little Red Tractor Label Scheme

26 Oct -

Radical action needed to end food and farming crisis

29 Oct -

Blair must challenge bush over climate treaty

31 Oct -

Supermarket code sells out food suppliers

31 Oct -

Use syria trip to say no to ilisu dam, blair told

1 Nov -

Our world is not for sale: wto protests around the planet

2 Nov -

H2orrible to contemplate: wto plans mass water sell-off

2 Nov -

Mass Parade Calls for Trade Justice

5 Nov -

Climate sticky in marrakech

6 Nov -

Planning overhaul bad for environment

7 Nov -

Foe welcomes little red tractor review

7 Nov -

Climate talks show progress

8 Nov -

Government in court over sellafield plutonium plant

9 Nov -

Urgent action needed on dangerous chemicals

9 Nov -

World trade talks: sale of the century

13 Nov -

Balfour beatty give up! ilisu dam campaigners celebrate triumph

13 Nov -

Global greens diss draft world trade deal

15 Nov -

Sellafield 'bomb factory' go-ahead not unlawful

16 Nov -

Government told to cut dioxins in food

16 Nov -

Supermarkets give UK apples the squeeze

19 Nov -

Simple Solutions to Waste Crisis

20 Nov -

Anger as Government Backs T5

21 Nov -

Save our food, save our farms

21 Nov -

Warm homes strategy still falls short

23 Nov -

Keep food local, supermarkets told

23 Nov -

Mox legal challenge goes to court of appeal

26 Nov -

Truckers get giant bung from brown

26 Nov -

FOE Names MEPs Blocking Tighter Chemical Regulation

27 Nov -

Brown backs business greens

27 Nov -

Huge port threat to wildlife site

28 Nov -

Taxpayers to Foot Nuclear Waste Bill

28 Nov -

Wild maize contaminated with gmos

29 Nov -

Road-widening plans are environmental disaster

30 Nov -

Illegal GM 'weeds' in lincolnshire

30 Nov -

Keep Our Water Public

5 Dec -

Aventis told to destroy GM weeds

6 Dec -

Planning shake-up threat to environment

6 Dec -

First big incinerator battle: surrey

7 Dec -

Green groups win "partial victory" on mox appeal

7 Dec -

Surrey says yes to monster incinerator

7 Dec -

Gm weeds finally destroyed

11 Dec -

12 Dec -

Government Planning Change A Disaster for Environment, Says FOE

13 Dec -

Supermarket food laced with hormone disrupters

17 Dec -

Government to fast-track planning - FOE lawyers to study details

17 Dec -

Outrage over Government proposals to fast-track planning system

20 Dec -

Anger over mox start-up

20 Dec -

Think Globally, Drink Locally

21 Dec -

Travelling this christmas - you won't be going by train

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