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WALES: Biodegradable bags are plastic fantastic - Bates
AM Mick Bates has praised the Co-op supermarket chain for its attempts to reduce the damaging amount of plastic packaging sent to landfill sites.
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British athletes should go for environmental gold in Athens - Baker
With less than two weeks until the start of the Athens 2004 Olympics, the Liberal Democrats are calling on the British team to reduce the environmental impact of the Games by travelling on a 'carbon…
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Up to 100,000 deaths from air pollution over next 20 years - Baker
As the weather hots up across Britain this weekend, the Liberal Democrats are warning of the increasing risk of air pollution due to rising levels of ozone in the summer air.
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WALES: Focus on Waste at National Eisteddfod
Welsh Liberal Democrats will be using the Eisteddfod week to call for greater government action to tackle Wales' growing waste mountain.
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Government ignoring its own green messages - Doughty
Commenting on the Environmental Audit Committee report, 'Greening Government 2004', Sue Doughty MP, Liberal Democrat member of the Committee, said:
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Green grilling for Presidential hopefuls
In order to glean the green credentials of the party's two presidential candidates, the Green Liberal Democrats have asked them to answer a series of questions on environmental issues.
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Time to apply the brakes to transport as emissions rise 47% - Baker
Worrying new figures from the Office of National Statistics, released today, reveal that greenhouse gas emissions from transport increased 47% between 1990 and 2002.
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SCOTLAND: Finnie announces publication of draft research strategy
A draft strategy to strengthen Scotland's leading contribution to agricultural, biological and environmental research has been published.
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Lib Dems call for tighter control in 'last minute' DEFRA
Baroness Sue Miller, Liberal Democrat Environment Spokesperson has called a debate in the House of Lords to highlight the serious incompetence of the Government in implementing the 1999 Landfill…
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Government smuggles out statement on future of NIREX - Baker
The future of NIREX (the body charged with the long-term disposal of nuclear waste) has been set out in an obscure Government statement - one of 45 written statements released today.