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Friends of the Earth

July 2024

  • Roger Hallam, Dr. Larch Maxey and Mike Lynch-White pose for photographs as they leave Isleworth Crown Court

    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

May 2024

  • Smoke from Scunthorpe steel plant

    Britain’s climate action plan unlawful, high court rules

    Environmental campaign groups took joint action against decision to approve carbon budget delivery plan

April 2024

  • Wind turbines in Watchfield near Swindon with straw bales in the foreground

    England could produce 13 times more renewable energy, using less than 3% of land – analysis

  • Brown, black and cream-coloured young cattle huddle together in a field

    US banks ‘sabotaging’ own net zero plans by livestock financing, report claims

March 2024

  • Woodhouse Colliery site, near Whitehaven in Cumbria

    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

February 2024

  • The UK government has a legal duty to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions.

    UK ministers in court again over net zero plans

    Friends of the Earth dismisses government’s revised climate action plan as a ‘pipe dream’

December 2023

  • Rishi Sunak speaking at a press conference at the Cop28 summit

    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

November 2023

  • Rural bus service in Suffolk.

    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

September 2023

  • Greenpeace ship

    Weatherwatch
    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

April 2023

  • Extinction Rebellion in Parliament Square on 23 April.

    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

March 2023

  • Factory chimneys spewing smoke

    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’

January 2023

  • People protest at the proposed site of a new coalmine near Whitehaven in Cumbria last month.

    UK government faces legal action against new coalmine in Cumbria

    Friends of the Earth says significant climate impacts not taken into account when go-ahead was given

December 2022

  • A BP logo is seen at a petrol station in London

    BP criticised over plan to spend billions more on fossil fuels than green energy

  • An oil rig anchored in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland.

    UK ministers face legal challenge over North Sea oil and gas licences

August 2022

  • an energy bills on a smartphone

    Study finds ‘hotspots’ in England and Wales at greatest risk from rising energy bills

    Areas where energy use is high but average income low include Birmingham and Cornwall, says Friends of the Earth

May 2022

  • A pedestrian walks along the coastal path beside the proposed site of a new coalmine in Whitehaven, Cumbria

    Cumbria coalmine redundant before it even opens, say campaigners

  • A smart energy meter

    Government to consider impact of UK energy efficiency plan on poor households

March 2022

  • Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, centre, at the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)'s Mina Abdullah refinery south of Kuwait City, March, 2022.

    Britain hands billions to projects linked to labour abuse and climate damage

    UK Export Finance used £5.24bn of taxpayer money to fund overseas energy and infrastructure ventures – despite its own review raising concerns

February 2022

  • an oil rig seen at sunset

    North Sea Abigail oilfield plan approved despite climate goals

    Cop26 experts said no new fossil fuel plans would be compatible with climate targets

January 2022

  • Wind turbines stand in front of a decommissioned coal-fired power station in Runcorn, England.

    UK government sued over ‘pie-in-the-sky’ net-zero climate strategy

    ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth say strategy fails to include policies needed to ensure emissions cuts
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