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Key points: Scottish Government has committed to meeting European legal air quality limits across Scotland by 2020; Scottish Government has not committed to meeting tighter, Scottish air quality standards by…
Analysis published by Friends of the Earth Scotland today reveals that the Scottish Parliament Pension Fund has over £2 million invested in fossil fuels, and a further £1 million…
This morning the City of Edinburgh Council’s Development Management Subcommittee refused planning permission for a controversial proposal for a supermarket within the St John’s Road Pollution Zone. The supermarket would…
With only six weeks to go before world leaders meet at key United Nations talks in Paris, negotiators are gathered in Bonn this week in an effort to move closer…
Reacting to the very lively debate at the SNP conference over fracking and unconventional fossil fuels today, Dr Richard Dixon, Director of Friends of the Earth Scotland said: “SNP members…
In advance of today’s SNP conference debate on fracking and unconventional fossil fuels, Dr Richard Dixon, Director of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “The SNP conference presents a crucial…
St John’s Road’s air pollution monitoring station recorded Nitrogen Dioxide average level of 72 μg/m3 in the first half of 2015, when legal limit is 40; The monitor recorded 35…
Responding to the announcement of a Scottish Government moratorium on Underground Coal Gasification, Mary Church, Head of Campaigns at Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “Well done to Fergus Ewing…
The Scottish Government announced today that it reached its 500MW target of community and locally-owned energy five years early with a total generating capacity of 508MW renewable energy now installed….
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