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Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email The government has been urged to make its temporary £2 bus fare cap permanent to make travel more affordable, cut congestion, and reduce emissions. Single bus tickets across England will be capped at £2 a […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email The Rishi Sunak government’s decision to green light Britain’s first new coal mine in 30 years is a win for the working-class, Conservative MP Lee Anderson has claimed. Approval for the fossil fuel project in Cumbria […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email The government has been condemned for approving a new coal mine in Cumbria – Britain’s first in generations. The Woodhouse Colliery project, near Whitehaven, has sparked fierce opposition from locals and environmentalists. Levelling-up secretary Michael […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email The head of Britain’s biggest business organisation has warned that the government is “going backwards” on the green growth agenda which provides the best opportunity to lift the country out of recession over the coming […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email The president of the Cop26 climate summit has attacked plans to open a coal mine in Cumbria, arguing it is not needed and won’t create many jobs. Alok Sharma – who was sacked by Rishi […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Closing a loophole in the windfall tax on oil and gas companies could reduce millions of families’ energy bills by £336 a year, new research shared with The Independent has found. Ending the tax relief […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Environmental groups condemned business secretary Grant Shapps for claiming wind turbines are “so big” they cannot be built on land. Mr Shapps defended Rishi Sunak’s de facto ban on new onshore wind development – claiming […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Labour today accused the government of “botching” its windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas companies by leaving loopholes which the party calculates will cost the public finances £17bn. In a challenge to Jeremy […] More
