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Corporate Cane Toad Award 2021: Rio Tinto and Mayur Resources receive Australia’s most toxic award
Rio Tinto and Mayur Resources were awarded the Corporate Cane Toad Award for their roles in contributing to environmental destruction and/or human rights violations worldwide [1]. The winners were announced at a...
Historic victory: judge forces Shell to drastically reduce CO2 emissions globally.
Friends of the Earth wins climate case against Shell.
Nigerian farmers & Friends of the Earth Netherlands win Shell oil pollution case
The Court of Appeal in The Hague has today ( 29 January 2021 ) ruled in favour of Friends of the Earth Netherlands/Milieudefensie and four Nigerians on most points in an oil...
EPBC final report our best chance to head off further extinctions
Australia’s federal environmental laws - the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act - are broken.
FoE takes Shell to court #ClimateCase
Shell Oil, one of the biggest climate polluters in the world, finally faces court in December This is a potential game-changer because if successful, Friends of the Earth Netherlands historic climate case...
Angus Taylor’s ‘Technology Roadmap’ leads to catastrophic climate impacts
Community driven environment group Friends of the Earth Australia says Minister Angus Taylor’s “Technology Roadmap” will lead the country towards catastrophic climate impacts.
New Report shows that the Strzelecki Koala Faces an Uncertain Future
Between December 2019 and July 2020, Environmental group, Friends of the Earth, carried out 200 koala surveys in the Strzelecki Ranges and Gippsland Region. The surveys hoped to better understand habitat utilisation...
SA Government must oppose feds nuclear waste dump
The recent announcement by federal resources minister Keith Pitt that a new 'Australian Radioactive Waste Agency' will be established and located in Adelaide is the latest move by the federal government to impose a...
Nuclear status quo in federal environmental law review
National and state environment groups have given a cautious welcome to the continuation of long-standing protections against nuclear risks in the current statutory review of the Environmental Protection Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act...
Geoengineers test planetary engineering scheme in Australia
In a shocking move, a small group of Australian geoengineers have defied an international moratorium on the deployment of geoengineering technologies.