Government Ordered to Take Action on Air Quality
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,...
Election Debating in Selly Oak
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...
Birmingham Keeps up the Pressure Against TTIP
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...
