by Timba Robinson | Apr 30, 2015 | Elections 2015, News
Over the past few weeks we’ve been emailing all Birmingham parliamentary candidates to get their views on a number of important environmental issues. We asked candidates how much they agreed or disagreed with 9 key environmental questions. The survey questions...
by Julien Pritchard | Apr 29, 2015 | Air Quality, News
The UK Supreme Court today handed down its judgement on the UK Government’s failure to meet legal limits on air pollution, ordering the Government to submit new air quality plans by 31st December 2015. The case, brought by environment lawyers Client Earth,...
by Julien Pritchard | Apr 26, 2015 | Blog, Elections 2015
Last Wednesday I made a decision to spend my evening (or a good part of it) at the Selly Oak Parliamentary Election Hustings. As someone who sometimes has a rather ambivalent view of the parliamentary system, this might have seemed a strange decision, and it probably...
by Julien Pritchard | Apr 24, 2015 | Economics, News
On Saturday 18th of April Birmingham Friends of The Earth and other local campaigning groups including Birmingham & Black Country Greenpeace and anti cuts campaigniners staged a mini protest in Victoria square against ‘free trade agreement’ the...
by Julien Pritchard | Apr 23, 2015 | Elections 2015
Birmingham Friends of the Earth have put together 17 tough questions to ask MPs at hustings on some of the most pressing environmental issues facing the UK. They are a mixture of questions that Friends of the Earth EWNI are asking parties and candidates, questions...
