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Wood fuel plan to cut plane CO2 branded as ‘pipe dream’

Plans to cut airline CO2 using greener jet fuels made from waste wood have been ...

Energy Water

Court of Appeal quashes permission for hydro-electric station on Thames

A council must pay a local hotel owner £55,000 in costs after losing a judicial ...

Features

Meeting the standard: how the government’s new energy regulations could affect you

In less than two years from now, private sector landlords could face fines of up ...

Features

Coastal erosion and the law of nuisance: alter tidal flow at your peril

The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has recently handed down its decision in respect of the ...

North should ‘take control’ of infastructure funding decisions, think tank urges

The north of England receives six-times less infrastructure funding than London, according to a leading ...

Energy Features Pollution

Three ways Nick Hurd can fight climate change

Following last month’s news that the new prime minister, Theresa May, decided to abolish the ...

Six billion fewer plastic bags used thanks to charge

Shoppers are set to take home six billion fewer plastic bags this year as a ...

Transport Transport & Highways

HS2 ‘wasteful vanity project’, campaign group says

Prime minister Theresa May should scrap the ‘wasteful’ HS2 rail project, the Taxpayers’ Alliance says. ...

Energy

How a huge school of sharks ‘flips the food pyramid’

Ecologists have discovered a food web beneath the waves of French Polynesia that is both ...

Scottish councils take the recycling pledge

Half of all the councils in Scotland have signed up to a Scottish Government-backed charter ...