The proposed structure of Juncker's new European Commission sidelines sustainability issues and risks undoing years of environmental legislation. The European Parliament must now block his deregulatory assault on the EU’s climate, energy, biodiversity, pollution, chemicals and environmental health policies.
… EU Parliament must reject Juncker's anti-environment Commission Green10 | 29th … issues and risks undoing years of environmental legislation. The European … biodiversity, pollution, chemicals and environmental health policies. The Green10 are …
Top tips for campaigners looking to influence the Environment, the Agriculture and Fisheries bills.
… Campaigning to overhaul environment legislation Robert McGeachy | 4th March 2020 News Change Makers Environment Parliament Westminster Policy … tips for campaigners looking to influence the Environment, the Agriculture and Fisheries …
The late Labour MP fought both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown on environmental policies, writes John Vidal, standing up for climate and access to countryside, and against GMO crops and road building. Radical to the end, he was one of the few MPs to support Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.
… Michael Meacher: an environment minister who stood up for his beliefs John Vidal the Guardian Environment | 22nd October 2015 Comment … MP fought both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown on environmental policies, writes John Vidal, …
Campaigners launch legal challenge to Environment Agency’s decision to grant a permit for one of Europe’s biggest waste incinerators.
… plant Campaigners launch legal challenge to Environment Agency’s decision to grant a … has issued a legal challenge against the Environment Agency over concerns that … for permission to judicially review the Environment Agency’s decision to grant the …
Tom Levitt speaks to one of China's most respected investigative journalists Liu Jianqiang on the rise of environmental activism in China
… Liu Jianqiang: fighting for environmental justice in China Tom Levitt | 11th May 2012 News China News Focus Environment Dam Natural World Climate Change … widespread acclaim for his investigative environmental reporting in China Tom Levitt …
A protest outside the Environment Agency highlighted the need for impartial and immediate action on fracking.
… Fracking protesters 'hold Environment Agency to account' Esme North … Climate Change Fracking Reclaim The Power Environment Agency … A protest outside the Environment Agency highlighted the need for … were among 50 demonstrators gathered at the Environment Agency (EA) offices …
The Conservative Environment Network launched a new report in Parliament with Sajid Javid. But the paper fails to properly address the issue of climate change and does not even mention fracking, says TIM HOLMES
… Conservative Environment Network report 'fails to drill … September 2017 News Tory Conservative Green Environment Climate Change Fracking 405280.jpg The Conservative Environment Network launched a new report in …
Is environment secretary George Eustice any more than a farmers' favourite with a patchy record on climate action?
… Johnson hands environment to minister with 'zero' climate … Change Makers george_eustice_cropped.jpg Is environment secretary George Eustice any more … pro-Brexit former farming minister, as new Environment Secretary. Eustice has …
So-called extreme energy - including fracking, coal bed methane extraction and underground coal gasification - is being rolled out with little concern for the environment, leading campaigner, author and engineer Paul Mobbs tells the Ecologist Film Unit
… being rolled out with little concern for the environment, leading campaigner, author and … it represents an unacceptable risk to the environment. So be it shale gas, which we’ve … it needs to grow that any concern about the environment, or human health, or the future …
The Environment Bill has been reintroduced to Parliament with new powers to stop plastic rubbish exports to less developed countries.
… | 30th January 2020 News Change Makers Environment Bill Plastic Pollution Air Pollution Office Of Environmental Protection … The Environment Bill has been reintroduced to … under new legislation to protect the environment. The Environment Bill has been …
There's no doubt that one of the losers in this year's UK election was the environment and that there's clearly been a failure not just in politics, which is failing in so many ways, but also in environmental communication - a failure to reach people's hearts and minds with the urgent need for change, writes NATALIE BENNETT
… Why environmental communications can't just talk about the environment Natalie Bennett | 14th July 2017 Comment Environment Politics Climate Change Action …
Any emergence from recession may erode shift towards more sustainable lifestyles, warns EU report
… UK economic recovery 'poses threat to environment' James Meikle | 1st December 2010 … supplies and wildlife, said the European Environment Agency (EEA). There is also a risk … analysis, provided by the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), …
Opinionated and outspoken, often wildly at odds with the government’s line, the UK’s environment minister Michael Meacher is, by his own reckoning, a lone voice in the wilderness.
… | 20th March 2001 News Michael Meacher Environment Minister UK Politic Nuclear … at odds with the government’s line, the UK’s environment minister Michael Meacher is, by … down the steps of the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs a car …
The attention that the three main parties are now giving to the environment is welcome, but no party is yet offering leadership of the kind needed.
… Green groups set tests for environmental leadership Tracy Carty | 1st … the three main parties are now giving to the environment is welcome, but no party is yet … change has risen up the political agenda, environmental groups from Greenpeace to the …
Paul Mobbs, leading environmental campaigner, author and engineer, tells the Ecologist Film Unit that extraction industries, including coal bed methane extraction, are going ahead in the UK despite serious environmental concerns........
… Paul Mobbs, leading environmental campaigner, author and engineer, … are going ahead in the UK despite serious environmental concerns........ Ecologist: … it represents an unacceptable risk to the environment. So be it shale gas, which we’ve …
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has handed the environment portfolio to the energy minister in an attempt to calm climate sceptics. But will it work? Ecologist writer Maxine Newlands reports.
… Minister Malcolm Turnbull has handed the environment portfolio to the energy minister … writer Maxine Newlands reports. Merging the environment and energy portfolios is a … voices from the climate sceptic right. But, environmental advocates and climate scientists …
Are we getting the facts about the world from a free press, or being led astray by a corporate media uninterested in the real issues? Writer and thinker David Edwards argues it out with environmental journalist Caspar Henderson
… Can we trust the media on the environment? David Edwards Caspar Henderson | … Climate Change Corporate Funding Corporations Environmental Reporting Balanced Reporting Commercial Interests Environment Media Climate Change Politics And …
From boosting biodiversity to gardens that are helping to tackle climate change, Chelsea Flower Show 2012 will be green in more ways than one. Rebecca Campbell went behind the scenes
… Biodiversity Plants Carbon Capture Green Eco Environment Green Living holding.jpg From … this year’s show will also have much for environmentalists. RHS Environment is a new initiative that focuses …
Having survived cancer, biologist Sandra Steingraber wrote a book to expose its link to the environment. As the film version premieres in Europe, she tells the Ecologist why we must all take a stand on air, food and water pollution
… wrote a book to expose its link to the environment. As the film version premieres in … evidence for the link between cancer and the environment. At the same time, as a cancer … bladder cancer, which has known links to the environment. It's a personal memoir, and …
Wangari Maathai’s Nobel prize-winning activism has thrust the environment to the forefront of the global security agenda
… Wangari Maathai: fighting for Kenya's environment Nicola Graydon | 1st March 2005 … Nobel prize-winning activism has thrust the environment to the forefront of the global … Even more importantly, she’s the only environmentalist ever to have received the …
The Paris Agreement is facing its first big test in Queensland, Australia, writes Justine Bell. After a long process beset by legal challenges, the massive Carmichael coal mine is inching closer to approval - which would open up the entire 250,000 sq.km Galilee basin and its 28 billion tonnes of coal to exploitation. Both state and federal governments have the power to ban it. But will they?
… mine has already been approved by the federal environment minister Greg Hunt, and on Tuesday … minister for natural resources and mines; an environmental authority, issued by Queensland's Department of environment and heritage protection; and an …
Britain's soils are in a bad way, writes John Quinton, and the government is doing little to help - indeed its policies are making the problems worse. So concludes yesterday's Environment Audit Committee report on soil health. But are ministers bothered?
… the problems worse. So concludes yesterday's Environment Audit Committee report on soil … health. But are ministers bothered? When the Environment Audit Committee of the House of … soil is an often overlooked component of the environment - but one that is critical to our …
The impact of the meat industry on the environment is well documented. While global solutions to this problem are necessary, there is a very real, immediate and visceral change people can make right now - on World Environment Day - to turn the tide. Go vegan. GEORGE MONBIOT et al write an open letter to the movement to support the Vegan Society's Plate Up for the Planet challenge
… Environmentalists challenged to go vegan this World Environment Day George Monbiot Kerry McCarthy … The impact of the meat industry on the environment is well documented. While global …
The Fisheries Bill creates powers for UK to operate as independent coastal state and manage its fish stocks.
… December 2020. Stocks But Sarah Denman, an UK environment lawyer at ClientEarth, said the … sustainably for the benefit of the marine environment and coastal communities. "In the … to protect, preserve and restore our marine environment." Patrick Killoran at Greener UK …