The Government's economic case for expanding Heathrow airport is flawed and should be independently reviewed, a new report says today.

Campaigners today launched a new map of planned rubbish-burning sites across the UK revealing that more than 100 communities are threatened by the prospect of a polluting incinerator in their back yard.

Andy Atkins today becomes Executive Director of Friends of the Earth. Andy has worked in a wide range of international development charities and has a strong track record of campaigning on environmental and social justice issues.

Plans to build an incinerator in Newhaven, East Sussex, will be put under the legal spotlight on Monday (21 July 2008) after the High Court granted an urgent hearing for a case filed against the planning permission by Lewes District Friends of the Earth.

Friends of the Earth is demanding that reforms to the retail planning system genuinely protect town centres and small shops, and curb the growth in out-of-town supermarkets.

The Government's white paper on community empowerment does not go far enough to restore local democracy

Responding to the Government commissioned Gallagher Review into the indirect impacts of biofuels, published today, Friends of the Earth warned Ministers against tinkering at the margins and urged the Government to reconsider its biofuels obligation.

The launch of the Government's renewable energy consultation is a welcome sign that Ministers' thinking on green energy is moving out of the slow lane Friends of the Earth said today (26 June 2008) but warned that Government policy still needs to shift up

Thursday's renewable energy consultation is a golden opportunity for the Government to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and spiralling fuel prices says Friends of the Earth today (25 June).

More than nine out of ten people want to have a say over planning decisions affecting their local area, a new survey released today (Wednesday 25 June 2008) by Friends of the Earth shows