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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 -

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 -

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 ï¿½9 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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