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REPORT: Malaysian Palm oil - green gold or green wash?
a commentary on the sustainability claims of malaysia's palm oil lobby Read more (07 Oct. 2008) NEW

Poison Fire

Watch our film about Gas flaring in Nigeria NEW

Secrecy and Corporate dominance: Commission's expert groups
ALTER-EU writes letters to Commissioners (08 August 2008) NEW
- letter to Barroso & Kallas
- letter to Verheugen
- letter to Potocnik
- letter to Piebalgs
- letter to Vassiliou
- letter to Dimas

Greenwashing by oil and gas group OMV
OMVadvertising claim ruled misleading after our complaint Read more (03 July 2008) NEW

EU and business ruled guilty for human rights violations in Latin America Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Lima, Peru at the Peoples' Summit 'Enlazando Alternativas' (13-17 May)

enlazando alternativas

Complaint against Burson-Marsteller
Friends of the Earth Europe complains to the Belgian government (7 May 2008) and to EPACA (8 April 2008) Read more

New coalition releases report against ArcelorMittal Read more

Friends of the Earth Europe files a complaint against Cabinet of Mr. Mandelson
Read more (30 April 2008)

REPORT: Extracting the Truth: oil industry efforts to undermine the Fuel Quality Directive
Read report

Action at launch of Shell's 'Energy Scenarios to 2050'
Exhibition displays the reality of Shell's operations (07 April 2008)

shell_exhibition

Secrecy and corporate dominance ALTER-EU study on composition and transparency of European Commission Expert Groups (25 March 2008)

European Commission fails to act on conflicts of interests
ALTER-EU says the new Communication on ethics is far too weak ( 06 March 2008)
- Read the press release
- Read the critique on the background study Regulating Conflicts of Interest for Holders of Public Office in the European Union

Stop Greenwashing the Economy!
Action and exhibition exposing greenwashing at the 6th European Business Summit
(21 February 2008) Read more

read more here

New coalition of groups against ArcelorMittal

A newly-formed coalition of environmental and community groups - Global Action on ArcelorMittal - has launched a report showing how local residents and workers around the world pay the price of ArcelorMittal's success. Friends of the Earth is supporting the groups.

The report - 'In the wake of ArcelorMittal - the global steel giant's local impacts' - was launched at a press conference in Luxembourg to coincide with the company's annual shareholder meeting. It contains nine case studies detailing ArcelorMittal's legacy of pollution, environmental damage, health impacts and poor worker safety.

In the report the coalition demands that:

* ArcelorMittal implements environmental and health action plans in consultation with residents adjacent to the plants and plant workers in a democratic manner;

* Governments should not give ArcelorMittal perverse tax breaks or allow it to dispossess people from their land; and

* Public financial institutions should not support polluting industry such as ArcelorMittal, which has extensive resources of its own.

Members of Global Action on ArcelorMittal will present this set of demands to their governments, the international financial institutions and ArcelorMittal, and step up their efforts to hold the company accountable at the local level.

'In the wake of ArcelorMittal - the global steel giant's local impacts' report