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1998

30 Dec -

Top restaurants back genetic food ban

21 Dec -

We Need New Wildlife Laws

21 Dec -

We need a new wildlife law

14 Dec -

New alliance to fight aircraft noise

8 Dec -

Do it now and spend the money on transport

1 Dec -

Protest welcomes Levingtons MD

30 Nov -

Killing two birds with new homes

28 Nov -

Parent Protest at Pester Power. Survey Shows Parents Angry as Kids Bombarded With TV Ads

27 Nov -

Cheap, Nasty, Horribly Hyped! Trashformer toys: Coming Soon to a Landfill Site Near You

26 Nov -

Give Our Kids a Break! "TrashFormers" Hit Town

25 Nov -

Daffy claims "quackers" says foe

24 Nov -

It's a grey queen's speech

23 Nov -

Measure for measure?

23 Nov -

Councils to Government: We Have Green Will, Now Give Us the Powers

20 Nov -

MPs Agree to GM Ban in Common's Restaurants . But Government still promotes Frankenstein food

18 Nov -

GOVERNMENT BOWS TO BIOTECH INDUSTRY AGAIN. New law reduces Government information on GM crops

17 Nov -

Newbury Bypass Set to Open. Bypass marked change in Government roads policy says FOE

14 Nov -

Buenos aires climate inaction plan a disgrace

13 Nov -

Act on waste, rubbish councils told

12 Nov -

Leaked letter tips US hand at climate talks

10 Nov -

The deadly cocktail : debt, deforestation and climate change

6 Nov -

"Enough is Enough - No More Noise and Pollution"

3 Nov -

Wildlife Bill Launched

3 Nov -

Wildlife bill launched

3 Nov -

Carry on consulting. climate change threatens disaster while chancellor gives green tax amber light

2 Nov -

GREEN ECONOMICS, Or Just More Budget Blues?

2 Nov -

Recycling means jobs

2 Nov -

Climate summit update

2 Nov -

Baby food in euro-safety shocker

28 Oct -

Crucial World Climate Summit Starts Monday 2nd November

27 Oct -

National alliance will fight airport growth

26 Oct -

Government Climate Change Paper. Principles Welcome but FOE says "Fewer options: more action"

24 Oct -

Fightback begins over aviation

23 Oct -

Sellafield mox decision "a farce"

23 Oct -

Will it add up? greens give details of Government's key climate change paper

21 Oct -

Nasty Cider-fects? Greens Expose Pesticide Shocker on UK Apple Day

21 Oct -

Ministers to give genetic food evidence to lords

21 Oct -

Don't swallow Government's GM fudge

20 Oct -

Supermarket Shoppers Say No To Frankenstein Food. Pressure builds on stores to go GM-free

19 Oct -

New green energy projects will help fight climate change

16 Oct -

Genetic Polluters Escape Scot Free. Government Shambles Means Offenders Escape Prosecution

16 Oct -

Foe calls on dti and treasury to act on climate change

12 Oct -

Health Alliance Fights Toxic Chemicals

10 Oct -

Government looks at GM crop ban

8 Oct -

Foe welcomes asda ban on gmo's in new food lines

8 Oct -

Poisoning our children: Britain's toxic chemicals crisis

7 Oct -

Royal commission calls for radical changes to Government green policy

6 Oct -

EU gas guzzling deal is no substitute for higher fuel duties and traffic reduction

1 Oct -

Government Treats Planet As a Business in Liquidation. New Green Website Shows How

29 Sep -

German election blow for nuclear privatisation

28 Sep -

FOE Demands New Labour Green Action, Not Words

24 Sep -

Foe welcomes Government boost for renewable energy

23 Sep -

Government to announce extra support for renewables

23 Sep -

Greens welcome water crackdown

22 Sep -

Foe slams alliance and leicester's new energy wasting mortgage

21 Sep -

Don't destroy rainham marshes says Government's wildlife advisors

21 Sep -

Ashdown Warned: No Green Sell-Out in Blair Sweetheart Deal

17 Sep -

New Recycling Law could Save Council Tax Payers Millions. FOE launches Private Members Bill

17 Sep -

Foe welcomes prescott agreement on climate

14 Sep -

Britain's Brown Electricity. Suppliers Fail Eco-Test on De-Regulation Day.

11 Sep -

Genebeast Comes to Bath. Greens Step Up Sainsbury's Protest Over Frankenstein Food

10 Sep -

Teigngrace - river diversion plan withdrawn

10 Sep -

Foe welcomes new wildlife proposals

8 Sep -

Don't Dump that Telly! Manufacturers Face New Euro-Law on Recycling White Goods

3 Sep -

Prescott plans to defy blair on london's transport

3 Sep -

Too sexy for their genes!

2 Sep -

Foe calls on environment agency chief to resign

30 Aug -

New genetic food labels con the public. Most modified food won't be labelled says FOE

27 Aug -

Cabinet enforcer cunningham breaks Government policy on sustainable timber

26 Aug -

Us oil companies polluting our rivers

19 Aug -

Learn to Love the Car! Motor Industry Fights Back On Labour Transport Policy

17 Aug -

Brain-damage chemicals in plastics

17 Aug -

Chemicals in telephones could scramble your brain

14 Aug -

Guide to Fighting Filthy Factories published

12 Aug -

It's a choker! londoners cough and wheeze in worst smog of year

11 Aug -

Bp/amoco hookup threatens return to climate change "dark ages"

11 Aug -

July Hottest Month in World History. FOE Demands Crisis Action on Climate Change

10 Aug -

Quango relaunches plan to destroy wildlife haven

10 Aug -

Stop Frankenstein Experiments! FOE Challenge to Government on Genetic Engineering

8 Aug -

Foe lists toxics tips in birth defects row

7 Aug -

Babies at risk near rubbish dumps says lancet

5 Aug -

Recycling newspapers better than incineration says new report

4 Aug -

MPs BAN GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD FROM PARLIAMENT. Yet public still expected to eat it.

3 Aug -

MEACHER IGNORES PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE ON BIOTECH CROP But Genetic Advisor calls for commercial growing to be halted

1 Aug -

PAY UP TO SEE WHERE YOU ARE. EU Slams UK Over Maps "Right to Know" Case

31 Jul -

Meacher puts lid on whernside plan

31 Jul -

Roads cut but m25 widening is nonsensical

30 Jul -

MPs SLAM PRESCOTT OVER GREENFIELD HOUSING

30 Jul -

Government acts on timber buying after FOE exposes navy mahogany scandal

29 Jul -

Brazil logging ban: "fiction"says foe

29 Jul -

END NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE FOE Launches Campaign To End Foreign Imports

27 Jul -

New Government Chemicals Strategy Won't Protect Babies

27 Jul -

'Scrap the Dirty Dozen'

26 Jul -

New Law Call as Wildlife Watchdog Report Published

23 Jul -

Channel four sells "distorted" and "misleading" tv programmes abroad

21 Jul -

Court of appeal rules that Government acted illegally over genetic maize trial crop - but refuses to order its destruction

20 Jul -

TRANSPORT WHITE PAPER An Important Step Forward, But Traffic Reduction Targets Still Missing

20 Jul -

Green test for prescott - what must be in the transport white paper

15 Jul -

Organic farmer to appeal against refusal to allow judicial review of genetic crop

15 Jul -

Ministry to Investigate Whernside Sheep Damage

14 Jul -

GOVERNMENT GIVES SOME GOOD GREEN NEWS But Spending Review Still Not Comprehensive Enough

13 Jul -

Powergen: 'generating climate change whatever the weather' time to increase your renewables, says foe

10 Jul -

Organic farmer to appeal against refusal to allow judicial review of genetic crop

10 Jul -

CONCRETE EVIDENCE OF GOVERNMENT FAVOURS 'Honest John' Prescott's M25 U-turn Shows Bias on Terminal 5

9 Jul -

Foe calls for Government genetic advisors to be sacked

8 Jul -

Foe welcomes english natures call for caution on genetically engineered crops

7 Jul -

'birmingham toll road is highway robbery' says middle england

7 Jul -

Friends of the Earth: Press Release:

3 Jul -

Maverick backbencher sabotages energy efficiency bill

2 Jul -

LEAKED REPORT UNDERMINES MIDLAND TOLL MOTORWAY Government's Own Report Shows BNRR A Disaster Waiting to Happen

1 Jul -

Sustainable Development Declaration

1 Jul -

New law to cut traffic reaches statute book

30 Jun -

Government given "kick up backside" over waste

29 Jun -

Europe Fails on Wildlife Protection

26 Jun -

Stop backing gas guzzlers: back our kids child health expert in dramatic plea to blair

25 Jun -

RECYCLING SCHEMES COLLAPSE ACROSS BRITAIN Government Waste Strategy in Early Crisis

25 Jun -

Government faces court challenge over "#34 ge-crop trial

24 Jun -

Bnfl/westinghouse deal - commons statement demanded

23 Jun -

FOE demands shake-up of "#34 nuclear inspectorate

23 Jun -

P.M. OPENS HEATHROW EXPRESS Free Guest Star Appearance Starts Big Payback to BAA

22 Jun -

Council fiddles over destruction of borough's best natural asset

22 Jun -

Renewed FoE Pressure on Mahogany Traders as Logging Season Kicks Off in Brazil

17 Jun -

EU GREENHOUSE GAS DEAL Too Much Hot Air: Not Enough Action

16 Jun -

Unions and greens groups call on Government to "create jobs through environmental policies"

16 Jun -

WOMEN'S SAFETY: WARM HOMES Government U-Turn Threatens Key Bills

15 Jun -

OFFICIAL REPORT SLAMS SAFETY STANDARDS AT NUKE PLANT Major nuclear accident was possible warns FOE

10 Jun -

'three peaks' mount savaged by sheep

10 Jun -

Tackling climate change: good for the economy, people and the environment says new FOE report

9 Jun -

NUCLEAR IS NOT ANSWER TO CLIMATE CHANGE: FOE slams Trade and Industry Committee's support for nuclear power

9 Jun -

FOE WELCOMES GOVERNMENT WASTE STRATEGY Urgent action needed to improve UK's "pathetic" recycling record

8 Jun -

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH WELCOMES PRINCE'S ATTACK ON GMOs

8 Jun -

BULLDOZERS THREATEN WILDLIFE HAVENS Roads Planners "Join the Dots" Between National Wildlife Sites

6 Jun -

INVASION OF THE MULTIPLEX MONSTERS - Cinema boom threatens traffic and pollution chaos

5 Jun -

TIME TO ACT LIKE "THE FIRST TRULY GREEN GOVERNMENT" FOE Demands Radical Labour Action on World Environment Day

5 Jun -

WARM WELCOME FOR ENERGY REPORT Energy tax can create jobs says FOE

5 Jun -

Weedy wildlife laws threaten right to roam

3 Jun -

New law aims to increase recycling

2 Jun -

700 million for chunnel rail link must not leave prescott like old mother hubbard

1 Jun -

Overpackaging is against the law! (or is it?)

29 May -

BRITAIN IS STILL CHOKING FOE Demands Drastic Transport White Paper Action

28 May -

Greater incentives needed to green the workplace says FOE

26 May -

New Councillors Urged to Save Wildlife Haven

26 May -

Foe calls for urgent action as glaciers melt faster than ever

26 May -

Public to be force-fed frankenstein food propaganda

21 May -

Bill and ben take peat protest to chelsea flower show

20 May -

Hot weather turns heat on prescott - worst pollution of year so far shows need for tough action on transport

19 May -

Chemical Industry Tries To Stop Action On Dangerous Hormone Pollution

19 May -

Prescott urged to pull the plug on marsh destruction

18 May -

Concrete obsessed council turns its nose up at 'the best of both worlds'

18 May -

POETRY FOR EIGHTEEN MILLION PEOPLE Britain's Leading Poets Join FOE to Launch Poetry on the Buses

15 May -

'THREE IN A BED' SCANDAL AT HEATHROW HOTEL FOE Exposes Cosy Times At Mammoth Terminal 5 Inquiry

15 May -

G8's WORLD BANK GLOBAL WARMING SCANDAL EXPOSED Rich Nations, Multinationals Profit From Fossil Fuel Funding

13 May -

Rio Tinto Dumps on Environment, Ducks Taxes

13 May -

Foe backs green investment company

13 May -

Domestic Trouble for Clinton at G-8 Summit: U.S. Environmental Leader Criticizes President for Inaction on Global Warming

8 May -

Farmer fights frankenstein food

8 May -

Shell agm: FOE urges huge increase in green energy investment

7 May -

Frankenstein foods threaten organic farmer

4 May -

Fuel poverty and energy inefficiency major killers

30 Apr -

BRITANNIA SCHOOL: COULD DO BETTER New Labour Scores 4/10 on Green Test After Year One

30 Apr -

Green concerns over u.s. takeover of energy group

26 Apr -

Frankenstein food companies named and shamed

25 Apr -

Labour Dithers As Wildlife Site Destroyed

23 Apr -

Campaigners attend ici agm to highlight filthy factories

23 Apr -

Three quarters of new homes can be built in towns and cities

22 Apr -

Georgia nukes contract: tip of the radioactive iceberg

21 Apr -

Survey reveals public fears over investment treaty

18 Apr -

National Save the Green Belt Rally Takes Place at Stevenage

12 Apr -

OUR COUNTRYSIDE "A GENETIC LABORATORY" FOR MULTINATIONALS Shock New Research From FOE Shows 300 Genetic Sites

10 Apr -

Labour turns back on peatland protection

7 Apr -

"create jobs, save communities, protect environment"

6 Apr -

Support for coal raises mass of contradictions

3 Apr -

Double housing blow to prescott

3 Apr -

Fight climate change to create jobs, g8 summit told

3 Apr -

Amazon fires warm the world: g8 ministers warned

2 Apr -

Channel 4 savaged by television watchdog over green stitch-up

1 Apr -

FOE FINGERS FILTHY FACTORY - ICI Runcorn: A Story of Failure for the Environment Agency's 2nd Birthday

31 Mar -

DOUNREAY VICTORY AS WASTE SHAFT TO BE CLEANED UP - Friends of the Earth Concerned at Vast Cost to Taxpayer

30 Mar -

Foe welcomes local mp's help - over road traffic reduction bill

27 Mar -

Greens launch Unilever "disloyalty card" to protest at genetic bean food experiment

26 Mar -

Locals challenge Government over failed promise to protect ancient forest

26 Mar -

Britain's recycling record - a load of rubbish, says friends of the earth

25 Mar -

Europe's largest forest company faces green protest

25 Mar -

US BID FOR UK ENERGY GROUP SLAMMED - Bad for Environment, Bad for Consumers, Says Friends of the Earth

25 Mar -

HOUSEBUYERS COULD SAVE HUNDREDS OF POUNDS EACH YEAR MPs Discuss Green Mortgage Surveys Law

25 Mar -

Shamed brazilian Government to accept un help on fires

23 Mar -

Chair admits failure of multilateral investment negotiations

23 Mar -

GOVERNMENT ABANDONS TOP NATURE SITES - Wetland Wildlife Faces Disaster on World Water Day

20 Mar -

Brazil ignored fire fighting help from united nations

20 Mar -

BUDGET: NO RELIEF FOR BLOCKED-UP BRITAIN - But 500 Million on Buses Mild Decongestant, Prescott Told

19 Mar -

Foe accuses aa of selective distortion of the truth

19 Mar -

COMPLACENCY FANS AMAZON FLAMES - Friends of the Earth International calls for urgent action

18 Mar -

"FRANKENSTEIN FOOD" GIVES ICELAND THE SHIVERS Friends of the Earth Welcome Green Move by Supermarket Chain

17 Mar -

NOT MUCH GREENER THAN A SMOG ALERT" Friends of the Earth Lashes Brown Over Budget Failure

16 Mar -

BUDGET CHECKLIST How to Judge Brown's Green Credentials

16 Mar -

Top Wildlife Area Ploughed - SSSI Totally Destroyed

15 Mar -

Green budget nobbled? - FOE opens book on next Tuesday's Runners and Riders

14 Mar -

Brazil Ablaze! Amazon Fires could signal "ecological meltdown

12 Mar -

Last chance for chancellor - FOE says 1998 must be year of green budget

11 Mar -

TREASURY PREVENTS BROWNFIELD CLEAN-UP Budget Will Not Stop Green Belt Housing Threat

11 Mar -

Reducing road space can cut traffic - FOE welcomes new report

10 Mar -

TREASURY UNDER FIRE ON GREEN TAXES Commons Committee Says Government All Talk and No Action

10 Mar -

Treasury flip-flops on energy vat change

9 Mar -

Natwest survey shows strong support for leaving the car at home

7 Mar -

Cut the jams: cut the bills

6 Mar -

Dead wood at the Ministry of Defence - Brazilian mahogany buying scandal

4 Mar -

Turning murdoch green

3 Mar -

Fare figures show urgent need for tax changes to promote public transport and reduce road traffic

28 Feb -

A real future for our countryside - a green alternative to Countryside Alliance

27 Feb -

Foe accuses duke of "double standards" over countryside

23 Feb -

Prescott fails to relieve pressure on countryside

20 Feb -

Money walks in indonesia as forest fires rage again

18 Feb -

Budget '98 - british road tax " a gift for greedy gas-guzzlers"

18 Feb -

Millennium eco-village: fine until you look next door

17 Feb -

Foe hails Government u-turn on regional policy

17 Feb -

Show green cons the red card says foe

16 Feb -

"chapter and verse" demanded as Government promises u-turn on regional policy

16 Feb -

Survey shows british road tax favours gas guzzlers

13 Feb -

Quarrying company told to stop extracting limestone in national park

12 Feb -

Government to evict local people for toll road it promised not to build

12 Feb -

Foe group condemns monster millennium dome car park

11 Feb -

Oil spill legacy remains two years after sea empress disaster

10 Feb -

Food victory as Government pulls plug on genetically modified crop

9 Feb -

Sactra report must lead to cuts in road-building

6 Feb -

Housebuyers could save 200 a year - new bill for green mortgage surveyors

4 Feb -

Three steps to heaven? New Labour Starts Down Road to Sustainable Development

3 Feb -

Green poems for red buses

2 Feb -

World wetlands day: meacher faces challenge over threat to top london wetlands

30 Jan -

Mps vote in favour of new law to cut traffic

30 Jan -

Green tax changes for jobs, economy and environment

28 Jan -

Campaigners claim traffic triumph as Government backs road traffic reduction bill

28 Jan -

Foe welcomes Government u-turn on funding energy saving trust

28 Jan -

Seventy nine per cent want Government to set road traffic reduction targets, new nop survey reveals

26 Jan -

Shock new figures show worst loss of brazilian rainforest ever

26 Jan -

FOE urges labour MPs to rebel on green field housing

26 Jan -

Foe demands end to british nuclear farce

23 Jan -

Plans to destroy london's largest wildlife site may be illegal says friends of the earth

23 Jan -

Six million kids at risk from too much traffic

22 Jan -

Urgent action demanded as environment agency reveals "gender bender" chemicals crisis

21 Jan -

Mandelson's birds face hormone disruption threat

19 Jan -

Quango plans 8m "blitz" on london's finest wildlife haven

19 Jan -

Latest air pollution figures show continuing threat to public health

19 Jan -

Health standards broken at every london air pollution monitoring site in 1997

16 Jan -

Labour marginal seats threatened if Government allows greenfield housing schemes

15 Jan -

Foe dismisses road lobby's desperate attack on new law to reduce traffic

15 Jan -

Planning reforms must not compromise democracy

14 Jan -

Warm homes key to cutting winter deaths

14 Jan -

Local agenda 21 must have hard targets and timetables

13 Jan -

Air pollution deaths double previous estimate - report highlights need for new law to cut traffic

13 Jan -

Work on new waste strategy announced

12 Jan -

Reducing road traffic by 10 per cent "practical and feasible" says former labour transport advisor

8 Jan -

Survey exposes great cereal scam

8 Jan -

Traffic moving slower in most cities says new report

7 Jan -

Britain must set example to EU on environment

5 Jan -

Storms may be caused by global warming

5 Jan -

Two thirds of MPs support new law to reduce traffic

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