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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 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 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 Ministers have been reported to England’s new environment watchdog for failing to meet a deadline to set new targets for clean air and water. Campaigners including the National Trust, the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and Asthma […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Rishi Sunak is facing a Commons push to “name and shame” any oil and gas companies who are avoiding the windfall tax on profits and publish the precise sums collected by the government. Oil giant […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Sadiq Khan is to push ahead with expanding London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) clean air driving charge to the whole of Greater London next year, he has announced. The Mayor of London said the […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email The British public overwhelmingly backs the construction of new wind farms and is increasingly hostile to non-renewable energy sources, a new poll has found. The survey, released as the world’s governments meet for the Cop27 […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Boris Johnson has joked about soaring temperatures from climate change being one possible reason for his removal from Downing Street this summer. The former prime minister suggested record-breaking temperatures of 40C in July helped spark […] More
