Friends of the Earth

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Pollution levels highly harmful to wildlife in quarter of England’s neighbourhoods, research finds
Friends of the Earth says pollution exceeds healthy levels for nature in 9,062 localities

Helena Horton Environment reporter

03, Sep, 2024 @5:00 AM

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Campaign groups call on Home Office to stop ‘steady erosion’ of protest rights
Civil society organisations demand home secretary protects the ‘safety valve’ of democracy

Damien Gayle

29, Jul, 2024 @5:00 AM

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Britain’s climate action plan unlawful, high court rules
Environmental campaign groups took joint action against decision to approve carbon budget delivery plan

Helena Horton

03, May, 2024 @10:44 AM

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England could produce 13 times more renewable energy, using less than 3% of land – analysis
Onshore wind and solar could provide 226TWh of electricity without impairing food production, says Friends of the Earth

Fiona Harvey Environment editor

09, Apr, 2024 @5:00 AM

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US banks ‘sabotaging’ own net zero plans by livestock financing, report claims
Lending to meat, dairy and feed corporations led to ‘significant proportion’ of banks’ emissions, Friends of the Earth found

Sophie Kevany

04, Apr, 2024 @10:00 AM

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Government documents ‘blow gaping hole’ in its case for Cumbrian coalmine
Michael Gove said UK needed coal to make steel, but business department papers drafted around same time say it will not

Damien Gayle

02, Mar, 2024 @6:00 AM

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UK ministers in court again over net zero plans
Friends of the Earth dismisses government’s revised climate action plan as a ‘pipe dream’

Damien Gayle

20, Feb, 2024 @11:04 AM

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UK likely to miss Paris climate targets by wide margin, analysis shows
Exclusive: Under current policies, Britain could fall short of internationally agreed goal of 68% cut in emissions by 2030

Fiona Harvey in Dubai

05, Dec, 2023 @4:00 PM

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Bus services cut by more than 80% in parts of England and Wales since 2008, finds study
Research of timetables reveals ‘silent war’ on bus users outside London

Nyima Jobe

28, Nov, 2023 @12:01 AM

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A non-partisan green movement is impossible today given its opponents
Claims that net zero by 2050 is too expensive feel like a ploy to keep oil and gas profits flowing

Paul Brown

15, Sep, 2023 @5:00 AM

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Climate protesters gather in Parliament Square as fossil fuel deadline passes
Four days of peaceful activism led by Extinction Rebellion fail to elicit pledge from government to ban new oil and gas projects

Sandra Laville

24, Apr, 2023 @5:08 PM

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UK government gambles on carbon capture and storage tech despite scientists’ doubts
Controversial technology is at centre of ‘powering up Britain’ strategy, but critics argue it has ‘little merit’ and ‘delays real cuts in emissions’

Fiona Harvey and Jillian Ambrose

29, Mar, 2023 @11:01 PM

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