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25 May
Industry myths blocking an EU 30% emissions cut

20 May
Lowering the bar: how the car industry can improve efficiency targets

11 May
Heads in the sand over Europe’s most dangerous chemicals

3 May
Spain's destructive fishing armada

30 April
Illegal timber out of the EU!

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Oil companies out of the deep seas!

14 July 2010

Oil-smudged Greenpeace activists awaited the arrival in Brussels of 18 CEOs from some of the world’s biggest oil companies for a meeting today with EU energy commissioner Günther Oettinger and environment commissioner Janez Potočnik to discuss the future of offshore drilling in Europe. The activists held up banners reading “STOP DEEP-SEA DRILLING” and called on oil companies to withdraw from deep-sea regions where oil spills cannot be controlled.

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Commission plans to relax rules on GM crops in Europe

13 July 2010

The European Commission will announce today proposals to speed up the union’s genetically modified (GM) crop authorisation procedure. Member states are being promised the right to ban GM cultivation if they reduce their opposition during the EU-level authorisation process.

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Green energy can win Europe technology race with China and US

08 July 2010

Green energy can help Europe regain a competitive advantage in the international technology race, while cutting ballooning fuel costs, creating jobs and slashing carbon emissions. These are the findings of a new study commissioned by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and launched today in Brussels.

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