Category: Environment

Treasury seeks to keep water firm fines earmarked for sewage cleanups

Exclusive: Restoration fund in England could be ‘siphoned off’ to be used for general government spending, not repairing rivers Rachel Reeves’s Treasury is looking to keep millions of pounds levied on polluting...

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Ministers pledge record £410m to support UK nuclear fusion energy

Ed Miliband says funding pledge means Britain within ‘grasping distance’ of ‘secure, clean, unlimited energy’The UK government has promised a record £410m investment in nuclear fusion which could...

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Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group

British arm of Heartland, which has taken oil and Republican funding, to be led by ex-Ukip head Lois PerryClimate science deniers are lining up a political offensive in Britain after a US lobby group opened a UK branch which is...

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Could Keir Starmer’s AI dream derail his own green energy promise?

As PM pins hopes on AI, what effect will building energy hungry datacentres have on Labour’s clean power pledge?Keir Starmer this week launched a plan to bring a 20-fold increase in the amount of artificial intelligence...

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Bring North Sea oil and gas under greater public control, report urges

Common Wealth thinktank warns that communities and taxpayer may have to pick up pieces when production endsNorth Sea oil and gas must be brought under greater public control to avoid a cliff-edge collapse of the industry and...

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UK government hires ‘nudge unit’ to help dispel heat pump myths

Behaviour experts say misinformation shared in media and by other stakeholders is impeding uptakeExperts from a “nudge unit” have been hired to help ministers fight misinformation about heat pumps in to try to...

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