MSPs back Workplace Parking Levy Powers: Welcome news for climate and air pollution
Locally-appropriate WPLs could cut toxic air pollution, reduce climate emissions and congestion.
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Protestors accuse BP of damaging environment and climate ahead of company AGM
Climate & indigenous rights activists will attend the BP AGM in Aberdeen to protest the company’s damaging projects and call for a fossil fuel phase out.
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Scottish Government support for UK oil and gas drilling incompatible with responding to climate emergency, report says
Report reveals huge climate impact of UK oil & gas industry plans, and urges Governments to plan for a just transition to a clean energy economy.
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Scottish Government abandons plans to cut Air Departure Tax
Climate campaigners welcome Scottish Government decision to keep tax on climate-damaging aviation.
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Scotland’s ‘climate emergency’ demands urgent action
Nicola Sturgeon has declared a ‘climate emergency’ but environmentalists say it must be backed with urgent action.
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Legal advice says Scottish Government can and should pass law to ban fracking
Legal opinion says Scottish Parliament can pass a law to ban fracking, and doing so would be less likely to result in successful legal challenge.
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Reaction to Ineos’ fossil-fuelled announcement
Ineos’ announcement will prolong our dependence on fossil fuels and risks increasing plastic pollution levels.
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Climate prediction means Government must ramp up action now
Met Office predictions show Scottish Government must take urgent action to tackle climate change.
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Westminster oil and gas report utterly complacent
Commenting on today’s report on the future of the oil and gas industry from Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee today, Friends of the Earth Scotland’s Director Dr Richard Dixon said: “This…
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