October 23, 2003

WASHINGTON ? Twelve states, several cities, and over a dozen environmental groups today joined forces to challenge the Bush Administration's continued failure to confront global warming. The plaintiffs are targeting the unprecedented ruling by the Environmental Protection Agency late last summer that summarily disavowed the agency's longstanding jurisdiction under the Clean Air Act to regulate global warming emissions. The states, cities and groups challenged the EPA decision in the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

October 22, 2003

Geneva, London. 22 October 2003. In the midst of growing European dissent over the impending arrival of the first four of 13 toxic, deteriorating ex-naval vessels from the US "ghost fleet", a new report, Needless Risk, was released jointly today by the Basel Action Network in Geneva and Friends of the Earth UK in London. The report details not only the environmental threat posed by the risky towage of aged naval vessels, but likewise exposes the fact that the United States has the adequate technical capacity to deal with the ships safely at home and that the trans-oceanic shipments are in contradiction with national and international law.

October 16, 2003

The Stop the War Coalition thinks that US president Bush has 'misunderestimated' (to use a George Bush phrase) just how much opposition there will be when he visits Australia next week.

October 15, 2003

Senate Motions On Nuke Weapons Welcomed

Friends Of The Earth Australia
Australian Peace Committee

Australian peace and environment groups Friends of the Earth Australia and Australian Peace Committee today welcomed two notices of motion placed by Senator Andrew Bartlett of the Democrats on the subject of nuclear weapons.

October 15, 2003

National environment group Friends of the Earth (FoE) has today welcomed a new call for an end to the Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia.

October 11, 2003

Friends of the Earth Indonesia, (WALHI) demands the government halt operations at the Grasberg mine (known as ?Freeport¹) following a disastrous landslide on Thursday morning 9 October 2003. The Grasberg mine in West Papua is jointly owned by USA-based Freeport McMoran and UK/Australian mining company Rio Tinto Ltd.

October 3, 2003

On the eve of Hugh White's (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) comments that Australia is unprepared for biological warfare, scientists from the World Health Organisation have stated to the World Climate Change Conference that global warming is responsible for 160,000 deaths per year. This figure is also said to double by 2020 as climate change effects increase.

September 9, 2003

Cancun, Mexico, September 9, 2003 - Trade and environment ministers from all around the world gathering today in Mexico at a key meeting ahead of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial in Cancun were warned not to trade away the environment.

September 2, 2003

September 14, 2003, Cancun, Mexico ? The European Union and the United States drove the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks here to collapse as they refused to give any concesssions to a bloc of developing countries. Agreement could not be reached on proposals from Europe, Japan and others to expand the WTO and bring in new negotiations to liberalise investment, competition, government procurement and trade facilitation (known as the 'new issues').

September 2, 2003

The official death toll from the recent heat wave in France has reached 11,500 with air pollution, inadequate heath system and elderly people living in isolation being challenged as the cause of such tragic figures. This is an average of 800 deaths per day during the 14 day heat wave where temperatures reach 40 degrees Celsius during the beginning of August.