Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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Friends of the Earth welcomes breakthrough in deadlock over controversial Sefton road building plans

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news release

Friends of the Earth has welcomed a report from Sefton Council (released 1 Dec) looking at alternatives to Highways England’s controversial A5036 Port of Liverpool Access Scheme.

Urgent Action needed to Clean Up Greater Manchester's illegal air pollution

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news release

Environmental campaigners and local parents are calling for more urgent and ambitious action to clean up air in Greater Manchester, as a consultation on a future Clean Air Zone is launched today (8 October).

Mapped: more than one thousand locations in England still breaching air pollution limits

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news release

A data audit* by Friends of the Earth has revealed the 1,360 sites across England that have breached the annual Air Quality Objective for Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) levels, which are set to protect health.

Campaigners welcome plans to pedestrianise Deansgate and call on Government to relax side-road zebra crossing rules

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news release

Manchester Friends of the Earth welcomes the plans announced by Manchester City Council to pedestrianise part of Deansgate and to create extended footways in other busy areas of Manchester, and calls on the Government to allow councils to install side-road zebra crossings without expensive Belisha beacons. [1]

A303 Stonehenge Tunnel Petition hand-in to 10 Downing Street

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news release

Around 50,000 signatures to the Alliance’s petition [2] will be handed into 10 Downing Street on Wednesday. The petition is addressed to the Secretaries of State for Transport, and Culture, Media and Sport, asking for no further damage to be done to the archaeological landscape of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site.

HS2 gets green light – Friends of the Earth reaction

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Reacting to the government’s decision to give the go-ahead to HS2, Friends of the Earth’s campaigns director, Jamie Peters, said:

British Heart Foundation urges Government to go further and faster with action on air pollution ~ 15 million people live in areas which exceed strict toxic air guidelines ~

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news release

The Government must go further and faster with plans to tackle air pollution by seizing a unique opportunity to clean up the country’s toxic air, according to a report by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

BHF urges faster action on air pollution - Friends of the Earth reaction

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Commenting on today’s call by the British Heart Foundation for the government to go further and faster with plans to tackle air pollution, Friends of the Earth air pollution campaigner Jenny Bates said

New UK housing 'dominated by roads – Friends of the Earth reaction

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Friends of the Earth is calling on the government to do more to encourage people out of their cars following a BBC report today that says new UK housing developments are dominated by roads.

Government considering cut to air passenger duty – Friends of the Earth reaction

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news release

Reacting to news that the government may cut air passenger duty on all domestic flights, Friends of the Earth campaigner, Jenny Bates said:

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