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Molly refers FlyBe rescue package to EU competition commissioner over potential breach of state aid rules

16 January 2020 by Media

Molly points to the implications of the rescue package on efforts to tackle climate change as well as potential breaching EU state aid rules.

Categories Climate change, Economics, News, Tax justice, Transport

The last thing the government should do is throw a lifeline to Flybe

17 January 202015 January 2020 by Media

Rather than prop up failing airlines we need to invest in environmentally sustainable transport, argues Molly for the Guardian.

Categories Articles, Climate change, Economics, Tax justice, Transport

Green MEP condemns plan to reduce Air Passenger Duty to save FlyBe

14 January 2020 by Media

Molly says that in light of the accelerating climate emergency it is absurd to suggest that we should provide a further boost to the aviation industry.

Categories Climate change, News, Tax justice, Transport

Get Bristol Moving – Lessons from Amsterdam

8 October 2019 by Media

Bristol is to gain inspiration from Amsterdam on how to revolutionise transport provision in the city at an event to be chaired by Molly.

Categories Climate change, News, Transport

I’m an MEP who travels via train and ferry instead of flying – it has opened up exciting adventures

3 October 201930 August 2019 by Media

Molly writes for the i paper explaining why despite the regular treks between her South West constituency and Brussels and Strasbourg, she uses trains, ferries and land-based options.

Categories Articles, Climate change, Transport

Pulling out of Interrail will hit tourism in the South West warns MEP

8 August 2019 by Media

Molly says the decision by the UK to pull out of the Interrail scheme will deny young people the opportunity to visit the South West and have a damaging effect on tourism.

Categories News, Transport

The ‘MEP who doesn’t fly’ urges people to sign up to ‘flight-free 2020’

11 July 201911 July 2019 by Media

Molly is urging people to make a ‘flight-free 2020’ pledge, saying stopping flying, or cutting back considerably, is the ‘most important single thing we can do individually to protect our climate’.

Categories Climate change, Human rights, News, Transport

Greens pledge support for kerosene tax to ‘clip the wings’ of aviation

18 June 2019 by Media

As a consultation on Heathrow expansion is launched the UKs seven Green MEPs are backing a European petition demanding tax on aviation fuel.

Categories Climate change, News, Tax justice, Transport

Green MEP calls for ‘destructive’ Stonehenge road scheme to be abandoned in favour of public transport solutions

15 January 2019 by Media

Molly has called on the Planning Inspectorate to throw out Highways England plans for a two-lane carriageway and tunnel at Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

Categories Climate change, News, Transport

New flights from London to Cornwall fly in the face of threats posed by climate change

26 November 201822 November 2018 by Media

Molly responds to an announcement by the Department of Transport that four new daily return flights between Newquay and Heathrow are set to begin next April.

Categories Climate change, News, Transport
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