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  • Assembly facing salvo of European complaints
  • Beauty queen backs call for Environmental Protection Agency
  • DOE bungles investigation into County Antrim fish kill
  • EPA spotlight falls on Sinn Féin
  • Green groups reassure farmers on environmental agency
  • James Blunt urges action on climate change as he brings Friends of the Earth's Big Ask campaign to the Waterfront
  • NI Environment Agency is a cynical re-badging of EHS
  • Northern Ireland Environment Agency launch upstaged
  • Planning and the environment: meet the experts
  • PPS14 Comment
  • Rural life safe with PPS14 says new research
  • Stakeholders endorse Environmental Protection Agency
  • The 'case for an EPA' is wheeled into Stormont Environment Committee
  • Wilson appointment a mistake say environmentalists
  • Friends of the Earth forces Sammy Wilson to climb down over protection of ice-age site
  • Ring the Changes on Climate Change - The Countdown to Copenhagen
  • Sammy Wilson faces legal challenge over ice-age site
  • Sammy Wilson overturns advice to grant protection to ice-age site
  • Wilson officially isolated as DUP supports Climate Bill.

Archived press releases

2008

16 Jan -

Green groups reassure farmers on environmental agency


22 Jan -

James Blunt urges action on climate change as he brings Friends of the Earth's Big Ask campaign to the Waterfront


1 Feb -

Stakeholders endorse Environmental Protection Agency


11 Feb -

PPS14 Comment


21 Feb -

The 'case for an EPA' is wheeled into Stormont Environment Committee


15 Apr -

Beauty queen backs call for Environmental Protection Agency


18 Apr -

Rural life safe with PPS14 says new research


27 May -

Assembly facing salvo of European complaints


9 Jun -

Wilson appointment a mistake say environmentalists


12 Jun -

EPA spotlight falls on Sinn Féin


1 Jul -

Northern Ireland Environment Agency launch upstaged


1 Jul -

NI Environment Agency is a cynical re-badging of EHS


10 Sep -

Planning and the environment: meet the experts


24 Sep -

DOE bungles investigation into County Antrim fish kill


29 Oct -

Wilson officially isolated as DUP supports Climate Bill.


3 Nov -

Sammy Wilson overturns advice to grant protection to ice-age site


26 Nov -

Sammy Wilson faces legal challenge over ice-age site


27 Nov -

Friends of the Earth forces Sammy Wilson to climb down over protection of ice-age site


4 Dec -

Ring the Changes on Climate Change - The Countdown to Copenhagen


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