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Press Releases Found: 251100+ Organizations Urge the EU Parliament to Remove ExxonMobil’s Lobby Badges
On March 21, the EU Parliament held the first ever public hearing on climate change denial addressing the special role ExxonMobil played in its decades-long campaign to distort the truth about global warming. The impetus for this hearing was a petition submitted by Food & Water Europe urging the Parliament to act on the case.
ExxonMobil lobby access to EU Parliament on the line
Today’s public hearing on climate change denialism highlighted oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil’s responsibility for deliberately spreading false information, and underlined the impact of such misinformation on EU climate action.
EXXON Climate Change Denial to come under fire in EU Parliament
For immediate release, March 18, 2019 Brussels – After decades of concealing the link between fossil fuels and global warming, oil and gas giant ExxonMobil will be the subject of the first EU-level hearing on climate-change denial on Thursday 21 March in Brussels. The company, whose lobbying has weakened European climate action, is refusing to […]
UN Committee Urges UK Government to Consider “Comprehensive and Complete Ban” on Fracking
In an extraordinary move, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) slammed the United Kingdom’s policies on fracking for failing to protect the rights of rural women, and urged the British Government to “consider introducing a comprehensive and complete ban on fracking.”
Green Groups Challenge ESRIs Assumption that Irish Citizens Could Benefit from Fracked LNG Import Terminals
Green groups – including Futureproof Clare, Gluaiseacht, Safety Before LNG, Friends of the Irish Environment, Not Here Not Anywhere, Love Leitrim, Friends of the Earth and Food & Water Europe – have challenged in an open letter ESRI’s recent Liquefied Natural Gas Valuation research bulletin which states that importing fracked liquefied natural gas (LNG) or developing a storage facility could reduce gas prices in future.
Más de treinta eurodiputados piden la paralización de la macrogranja de las 20.000 vacas en Noviercas (Soria)
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More Than 30 MEPs Raise Their Voices Against a 23,000 Dairy-Cow Factory Farm in Spain
Thirty-three MEPs from six different political groups and 11 countries endorsed a letter [1] sent today to Spanish national and regional governments urging them to stop a projected factory farm that would house more than 23,000 dairy cows [2]. It would be the biggest dairy farm in the European Union and opens the doors to a factory farm model imported from the US that has no place in Europe.
Food & Water Watch’s Wenonah Hauter, Fashion Icon Vivienne Westwood, Hollywood Actress and United Nations Human Rights Champion Amber Heard Ask UN To Consider Fracking Affront To Women’s Rights In The UK
A co-signed letter from a group of environmental organisations and human rights activists to The Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) recommends that the United Nations ban fracking in order to protect the health and well-being of women threatened by the dangerous drilling practice in the United Kingdom.
The European Parliament Fails to Support the Human Right to Water
In response to the European Parliament’s failure to support the human right to water, David Sánchez from Food & Water Europe said: “Conservative parties ignored, once again, the demands of the nearly two million citizens that supported the European Citizens’ Initiative for the Human Right to Water.
International Civil Society Groups Ask the European Parliament to Support the Human Right to Water
More than forty civil society organisations from all over the world sent a letter today to Members of the European Parliament encouraging them to support the Human Right to Water in the vote on the Directive on the Quality of Water for Human Consumption.