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2006

1 Jan -

Brown's conference speech lacked urgency on climate change

4 Jan -

Energy efficiency could prevent gas supply problems

5 Jan -

Friends of the Earth charity screening at Prince Charles Cinema

9 Jan -

10 years on: Newbury Bypass traffic much higher than predicted

9 Jan -

More research needed on wildlife, not less

10 Jan -

Asia-Pacific Partnership will fail to tackle climate change

10 Jan -

Government failing to stop UK company abuses overseas

10 Jan -

Monsanto sets its sights on European maize

11 Jan -

Friends of the Earth takes Chancellor to court

12 Jan -

Shell attacked for hypocrisy in sponsoring wildlife prize

16 Jan -

Supermarket heavyweights trample planning system

16 Jan -

Local school shouts about climate change

17 Jan -

Christmas profits reflect Tesco takeover

18 Jan -

Energy review needs clean and safe solutions

19 Jan -

Government faces tough battles over incineration plans

19 Jan -

Government plans to increase incineration slammed

23 Jan -

Energy review comment

23 Jan -

UK emissions rise again

23 Jan -

New A303 widening plans will damage Stonehenge site

23 Jan -

Recycling rates increasing - but fifty per cent is just the start

23 Jan -

Austria bans Monsanto GM rape

24 Jan -

Business Review is no replacement for full environmental reporting

26 Jan -

Nuclear waste experts quell hopes of nuclear revival

30 Jan -

Stark warning over climate change

1 Feb -

US must act on oil addiction

2 Feb -

Shell reports record profits - Pacific Grey Whales pay the price?

2 Feb -

Friends of the Earth forces Chancellor to cave in on environmental reporting

6 Feb -

Tory lords seek to water down responsible business requirements

6 Feb -

WTO GM challenge - draft decision imminent

7 Feb -

BP must move beyond petroleum as profits soar

8 Feb -

Alternative needed to secretive WTO

8 Feb -

Anger as WTO rules against EU in GM trade dispute

9 Feb -

Groups publish WTO conclusions

9 Feb -

Thom Yorke plays 'The Big Ask Live'

14 Feb -

Government waste strategy is missed opportunity

14 Feb -

Friends of the Earth slams Government love affair with incinerators

14 Feb -

Friends of the Earths Launches 'Mad About' Lesson Plans

15 Feb -

Friends of the Earth welcomes small shops report

15 Feb -

Local campaigners unite to fight tescopoly

15 Feb -

Sea Empress oil spill - ten years on

16 Feb -

Water problems could scupper East of England housing plans

16 Feb -

Climate treaty one year old, but emissions still rising

17 Feb -

African NGOs tell ministers to say no to terminator technology

23 Feb -

British Gas profits must be invested in saving energy

27 Feb -

Stop Climate Chaos to meet Blair, Brown, Beckett and Benn

28 Feb -

Prime Minister's warm words on climate change leave campaigners looking for action

28 Feb -

Leaked WTO report: US misled the world on "victory"

28 Feb -

No public money for Shell's Sakhalin project

1 Mar -

MPs go carbon dating to stop climate chaos

2 Mar -

New leader must put environment at heart of policies

2 Mar -

Anger as Government rejects Whinash windfarm

2 Mar -

Top scientists unite against wildlife research cuts

3 Mar -

New research shows a bright energy future is possible

6 Mar -

Worldwide protest against Tasmanian logging

6 Mar -

Government advisors say nuclear power is "not the answer"

7 Mar -

Sustainable building code for new homes "totally inadequate"

8 Mar -

UK must push for low carbon EU energy policy

8 Mar -

Brown kept DTI in dark over corporate reporting u-turn

9 Mar -

Friends of the Earth condemns UK position in EU waste debate

9 Mar -

"Stronger" code for sustainable homes still too weak

9 Mar -

OFT calls for investigation into supermarket power

10 Mar -

European Commission objects to anti GM contamination policies from 10 member states

13 Mar -

UK taxpayers 'subsidise' airlines by 300 each every year

13 Mar -

Anger as top wildlife research sites are axed

14 Mar -

New dates announced for 'The Big Ask Live'

15 Mar -

USA opposing World Heritage action on climate change

17 Mar -

Supermarket Code: Shoppers back rules to protect British farmers

20 Mar -

Brown's budget must focus on climate change

20 Mar -

Budget must help tackle climate change

20 Mar -

Government car-sharing plans likely to increase traffic

21 Mar -

Councils warned transport plan is "unlawful"

21 Mar -

Councils warned transport plan is "unlawful"

22 Mar -

Budget 2006: Brown starts to turn green

23 Mar -

Climate change programme review - Labour's credibility test

23 Mar -

Climate change programme review - Labour's credibility test

23 Mar -

World Bank trade strategy has not adequately helped the poor

24 Mar -

English waste levels rise again

28 Mar -

Government climate review is totally inadequate

29 Mar -

Information Tribunal rules against excessive public charges

29 Mar -

Green light for new Essex port slammed

30 Mar -

Nuclear clean-up bill may hit 70 billion

30 Mar -

Carbon dioxide emissions highest ever since Labour came to power

3 Apr -

90% of people in Britain back tougher rules for business as new corporate responsibility campaign is launched

3 Apr -

Government to offset flight emissions

3 Apr -

EU Commission condemned over GM contamination policy

3 Apr -

Moratorium on GM 'Terminator' upheld

6 Apr -

EU conference fails to tackle contamination

11 Apr -

Severn Barrage is not the answer

11 Apr -

Shell ordered to appear by Nigerian court

12 Apr -

Demand for palm oil triggers massive expansion in Borneo

12 Apr -

Welsh bands play The Big Ask Live in Cardiff

13 Apr -

Energy Review: What the Government needs to do to restore its climate credentials

18 Apr -

US emissions reach record levels

18 Apr -

'Vote Blue Go Green' urges Cameron

18 Apr -

EU Commission admits safety concerns over GM food

19 Apr -

Gordon Brown's climate opportunity - World Bank Spring Meetings

20 Apr -

Battle for green vote heats up

21 Apr -

Mandelson's secret WTO "court" for trade disputes

24 Apr -

Paying for Tesco's profits

25 Apr -

BP profits down - but still fuelling climate change

25 Apr -

Tesco - the new green chameleon?

25 Apr -

UK motor industry failing to tackle climate change

26 Apr -

Government Food Strategy fails farmers and environment

26 Apr -

TV chef Ross Burden gets cooking for the climate

27 Apr -

N-Waste solution may take decades

28 Apr -

Keep it local and save our small shops

28 Apr -

No public subsidy for Shell's Sakhalin project

28 Apr -

Top musicians play sell out climate change gig

1 May -

75 percent back new climate law as Thom Yorke plays sell out climate change gig

2 May -

MPs Asked to Act to Save the Orang-utan

3 May -

'Green' incineration claims misleading

3 May -

Government drops OFR, and puts profit before environment

4 May -

Shell's profits - a cause for shame

9 May -

Supermarkets referred to Competition Commission

9 May -

Shell claims action on climate change

11 May -

Friends of the Earth launches new climate resource for schools

11 May -

US did not win transatlantic GM trade dispute

12 May -

Miliband urged to back clean, safe alternatives to nuclear power

15 May -

EU emissions targets: Governments must set tougher targets

15 May -

Corporate interests threaten rural poor and environment

16 May -

Shareholders face challenge at Shell AGM

16 May -

Anger over Blair's nuclear comments

17 May -

Super jumbo is not the solution to climate change

17 May -

Blair must publish nuclear briefing

17 May -

Friends of the Earth makes official request for Blair's nuclear briefing

18 May -

Friends of the Earth welcomes Liberal Democrat green tax plans

18 May -

Giant Airbus not the solution to aviation's climate impact

19 May -

Climate change photo competition launched

19 May -

Corporate abuse fight heats up

20 May -

Dirty dossier on Shell's Sakhalin II Project presented to funders

23 May -

UK greenhouse gases rise again

24 May -

High Court challenge to police clamp down on London cycle ride

24 May -

Water crisis must lead to rethink for SE housing plans

1 Jun -

Europe unites to condemn Mandelson's WTO agenda

6 Jun -

Water: Government must rethink housing strategy

6 Jun -

Company law key to tackling poverty, groups tell Blair

6 Jun -

"Businessmen" call for corporate irresponsibility to become law

6 Jun -

Friends of the Earth welcomes business demands for climate action

7 Jun -

Information Commissioner admits he failed to comply with Freedom of Information Act

8 Jun -

Government micro-generation plans: A small step in the right direction

10 Jun -

International Day of Action on Aviation

12 Jun -

British yacht sets sail for La Route du Rhum and climate action

13 Jun -

Rubbish bag tax - Friends of the Earth comment

14 Jun -

New home information packs incentivise tackling climate change

14 Jun -

Scientists raise concerns over night flight impact on climate change

15 Jun -

Decision to build Europe's biggest incinerator in London condemned

19 Jun -

Business pressure on planning threatens communities

20 Jun -

Friends of the Earth barred from pro-industry biotech meeting

22 Jun -

EU emissions rise again

22 Jun -

SE housing developments should be 'water neutral'

23 Jun -

Schools compete for wind power

27 Jun -

Tesco decide's Sheringham's future - secret deal unveiled

27 Jun -

US Supreme Court to hear climate change case

27 Jun -

Critical Mass cyclist wins judicial review against Met Police

27 Jun -

Safe alternatives to nuclear power do exist, Mr Blair

28 Jun -

High Court victory in Northern Ireland sewage hotspots case

28 Jun -

Freedom of Information Act - Friends of the Earth comment

28 Jun -

CANN Nottinghamshire rise to the climate change challenge?

29 Jun -

UK contribution to EU Emissions Scheme 'inadequate'

30 Jun -

High Court orders developers to stop destroying wood

30 Jun -

UK's first solar powered recording studio opens in London

4 Jul -

Public Voice in Planning Process Under Threat, MPs Told

4 Jul -

Public voice in planning process under threat, MPs told

4 Jul -

Barker report threatens communities and countryside

6 Jul -

Tesco must pull out of Norfolk town

7 Jul -

Shareholders warned about the price of Tesco's record breaking profits

7 Jul -

Friends of the Earth Class 40 yacht leaves Cape Town

8 Jul -

Invest in UK renewables or risk losing billions of pounds Government warned

10 Jul -

MPs debate Company Law Reform Bill

10 Jul -

World Heritage Committee must take action to protect Everest and other top sites from climate change

10 Jul -

Anger as World Heritage Committee fails to protect Everest and other sites from climate change

11 Jul -

UK fails to go for low carbon future

12 Jul -

UK 108th in new 'Happy Planet Index'

14 Jul -

G8 to feed oil addiction, fuelling climate change

19 Jul -

Government considers individual carbon credit scheme

20 Jul -

Government GM consultation slammed

24 Jul -

Trade talks deadlock brings new hope

26 Jul -

Environment Agency report shows Companies Bill must be strengthened and fines increased

27 Jul -

Shell vs. BP: Who is performing worst on climate change?

31 Jul -

No early solution to nuclear waste, interim steps needed quickly

1 Aug -

Climate change in spotlight at London 'I Count' event

2 Aug -

Department for Transport failing on climate change

2 Aug -

Major UK supermarkets sign up to take action on palm oil

2 Aug -

World leaders urged to pause in desperate bid to revive trade talks

3 Aug -

Royal Bank of Scotland profits mask destruction

4 Aug -

Green bag claims cover for Tesco's waste mountain

4 Aug -

Call for international climate change research programme

7 Aug -

Call for greener transport policies in damning report

21 Aug -

Call for ban on US imports of rice after GM contamination revealed

22 Aug -

EU to act over GM-contaminated US rice

23 Aug -

EU clamps down on GM rice

23 Aug -

Burning palm oil fuels climate change

23 Aug -

Government must reject plans to grow GM potatoes

25 Aug -

Climate change is changing the seasons - New research

29 Aug -

Hurricane Katrina dwarfed by future regional climate impacts

1 Sep -

Cameron backs new climate change law

5 Sep -

Illegal GM rice found in UK

6 Sep -

Supermarkets supporting GM through the back door

8 Sep -

Sainsburys waste initiative welcomed

12 Sep -

Putting climate on the agenda at party conferences

15 Sep -

Climate Clinic at the Lib Dem Party Conference

15 Sep -

UK's first climate road map published

17 Sep -

Food Standard Agency faces legal challenge over GM-contaminated rice

18 Sep -

Friends of the Earth at the Party conferences

18 Sep -

Central England has warmed by one degree since 1960 - new study

19 Sep -

Potential sea level rise worse than previously expected

20 Sep -

Leave the trade talks on hold

20 Sep -

Landmark legal case: State of California sues automobile companies for climate change damage

21 Sep -

Branson climate initiative - reaction

21 Sep -

Call for US rice ban after GM blunder

22 Sep -

Costs of airport expansion outweigh the benefits, says new report

25 Sep -

Regional and local development plans must be 'climate proofed'

25 Sep -

Brown must show urgency on climate change

27 Sep -

EU condemned for forcing unfair trade on poor countries on International Stop EPAs day

29 Sep -

No winners in GM trade war as WTO makes ruling public

30 Sep -

The Big Ask wins Clarion Climate Change Award

3 Oct -

Climate Clinic: Drought could double by end of century, Met Office Hadley Centre research shows

4 Oct -

Cameron calls for climate law consensus

4 Oct -

EU must reject Mandelson's trade vision

4 Oct -

Tesco unveils 1bn profit

5 Oct -

Most MPs back call for new climate law in Queen's Speech

6 Oct -

FSA amends advice to retailers on unauthorised GM rice following threat of legal action

10 Oct -

Launch of Stop Climate Chaos 'I Count' Campaign

13 Oct -

Economists warn climate change will cost world trillions if governments fail to act

13 Oct -

Shells neighbours expose hypocrisy of wildlife prize

13 Oct -

Government 'likely' to introduce new climate law - report

15 Oct -

Blind Spot in Conservatives Green Credentials Exposed

17 Oct -

Shells neighbours visit London to 'watch' MPs debate Companies Reform Bill

17 Oct -

Campaigners Frustrated By Corporate Accountability Move

17 Oct -

Radiohead Singer puts The Big Ask to MP

18 Oct -

CBI accused of exaggerating red tape burden

18 Oct -

Improvements to Companies Bill - movement towards corporate responsibility

19 Oct -

Labour's GM plan 'legally flawed'

23 Oct -

UK carbon emissions still rising

24 Oct -

American rice imports must be tested for GM contamination

25 Oct -

Conservative announcement on Climate Change Bill

25 Oct -

Public says politicians must do better on climate change

25 Oct -

Join the great supermarket debate

25 Oct -

Friends of the Earth reaction to reports on climate change bill

25 Oct -

Friends of the Earth launches new online shop

26 Oct -

Stern Review to reveal cost of climate change

27 Oct -

GM rice legal challenge issued

30 Oct -

Stern measures required

30 Oct -

Government's Climate Bill step in right direction

31 Oct -

High Court to rule on Newbottle Wood

31 Oct -

Mayor joins Friends of the Earth to call for Climate Bill

6 Nov -

Young people say not enough is being done to tackle climate change

7 Nov -

Nuclear not the answer

8 Nov -

Young people lobby Tony Blair over climate change

10 Nov -

Companies Act - a step forward

10 Nov -

Ken Saro-Wiwa remembered in international day of action

10 Nov -

Climate Bill must include annual cuts in carbon dioxide

13 Nov -

New legal advice line to launch

14 Nov -

Australia isolates itself at climate change negotiations

14 Nov -

'Mind the gap' - Miliband must take a lead at Nairobi climate talks

15 Nov -

Climate talks lack urgency

15 Nov -

Friends of the Earth's Big Ask campaign gets Climate Change Bill into Queens Speech

21 Nov -

Judge gives go ahead to FSA High Court challenge over GM rice

21 Nov -

Kyoto moves forward - at a slow pace

22 Nov -

Prime Minister launches The Big Ask climate debate

23 Nov -

EU Ministers dodge commitment to cut energy waste

24 Nov -

West African food aid contaminated with GM rice

27 Nov -

Brown pushes for bad trade deal

29 Nov -

British travel industry must wake up to climate threat

29 Nov -

Council blocks Stansted expansion

30 Nov -

Chancellor must tackle climate change in pre budget report

30 Nov -

UK Government urged to reject 'half baked' GM potato plans

1 Dec -

Prime Minister responds to public in The Big Ask online climate debate

1 Dec -

Government slammed over green light for GM potato trials

1 Dec -

Eddington report - Friends of the Earth comment

4 Dec -

Barker Planning Review will undermine local democracy warns Friends of the Earth

5 Dec -

Pre Budget Report - Brown must tackle climate change

6 Dec -

Brown Budget fails green test yet again

7 Dec -

Public asked to put name to Shell advert petition

8 Dec -

Green New Year resolutions

8 Dec -

Competition Commission urged to act on new evidence from farmers

12 Dec -

Aviation White Paper progress report due Thursday

12 Dec -

Government to unveil plans to tackle climate change through the planning system

13 Dec -

Friends of the Earth welcomes new planning measures

14 Dec -

Government aviation strategy still on climate collision course

14 Dec -

Friends of the Earth fear for freedom of information

15 Dec -

Britain's leading landscape artist backs Friends of the Earth

18 Dec -

EU environment ministers uphold Austrian GM ban

18 Dec -

Green light for world's biggest windfarm welcomed

19 Dec -

Aviation and emissions trading - plans to be unveiled

20 Dec -

Government recycling figures for England - Friends of the Earth comment

21 Dec -

UK Government decision undermines its own timber policy

29 Dec -

European parliament votes to protect organics from GM contamination

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