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• Battle for Bali: campaigners fight back against unchecked development

  22 Oct 2014: Johnny Langenheim: Bali is facing an environmental crisis caused by runaway tourism development but a controversial land reclamation project is galvanising protesters
  

• MPs call for improved rail links to south-east airports

  15 Oct 2014: Petition identifies excessive car journeys as one of the biggest barriers to the future sustainability of airports

• Boeing investing in UAE effort as detractors warn of ‘peak travel’

  8 Oct 2014: At the SXSW Eco conference, Boeing butted heads with activists concerned about aviation’s contribution to global warming

• Blow to Nick Clegg as Lib Dems defy leadership over airport expansion

  7 Oct 2014: Nick Clegg overruled by party in hope to enter general election without the pledge, which he says may have to be broken

• UK electric car sales surge in 2014

  7 Oct 2014: BusinessGreen: Industry figures show sales growth outpacing diesel and petrol equivalents, although volumes remain small

• Liberal Democrats reject support for Gatwick airport expansion

  7 Oct 2014: Party rebuffs leadership’s bid to introduce conditional backing for a second runway in return for blocking Heathrow enlargement

• Wanderlust and the environment: can we afford to keep traveling?

  6 Oct 2014: Tourism comes with a high environmental cost. But it’s hard to give up the experience of seeing the world. What might travel look like in the future?
  

• British Airways: Heathrow expansion is a ‘lost cause’

  2 Oct 2014: Willie Walsh says UK’s political class lacks character to push for third runway at airport

• Revamped lorry designs could avoid hundreds of cycling deaths – study

  23 Sep 2014: Lorries should have longer cabs, rounded noses and expanded glazed areas to increase visibility, Loughborough team says

• Richard Branson failed to deliver on $3bn climate change pledge

  13 Sep 2014: New book by Naomi Klein reveals that Virgin founder gave less than a tenth of cash promised to develop low carbon fuel

• Boris Johnson's diesel car scrappage scheme could cost £300m

  11 Sep 2014: Paying owners £2,000 to switch to cleaner models could take more than 150,000 polluting cars off London’s roads, mayor says
  

• The Guardian view on Britain’s aviation addiction, as Boris Johnson’s airport plan gets turned down

  2 Sep 2014: Editorial: The London mayor’s Thames estuary plan always lacked seriousness – but so does an entire debate which ignores the carbon costs of flying

• Boris Johnson: third runway at Heathrow would be a 'disaster'

  1 Sep 2014: Johnson is calling for new Thames estuary airport, saying Heathrow expansion would cause too much noise pollution

• CBI appears to back Heathrow over Gatwick for airport expansion

  1 Sep 2014: Report triggers controversy after press release appears to have been sent to Heathrow and back before being issued to rivals

• Heathrow boss urges Boris Johnson to back third runway

  29 Aug 2014: John Holland-Kaye appeals to London mayor, as Airports Commission prepares to decide fate of Thames estuary scheme

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