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Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Green groups called on the new Business Secretary Grant Shapps to ban fracking on Wednesday morning, while his appointment has been broadly met with relief that he isn’t Jacob Rees-Mogg but concern that he may […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Jacob Rees-Mogg is facing legal action over his decision to lift the moratorium on fracking in England. Environmental and community groups have sent a legal letter, seen by The Independent, to notify the business secretary […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Conservative MPs are said to be discussing with Labour ways to block Liz Truss’s move to allow fracking at sites across England. The prime minister is determined to press ahead with plans to boost drilling […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email It is vital for Britons to change their behaviours if the UK is to tackle the climate crisis – but the government is not doing enough to help, according to a new report. The House […] More
Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Boris Johnson’s father has warned the Liz Truss government not to put vital environment protections at risk in the “mad dash” for economic growth. […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Jacob Rees-Mogg said he would be “delighted” to have his own back garden drilled for shale gas as he defended the Liz Truss government’s push for fracking. The business secretary suggested that he would welcome […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Residents living close to one of the UK’s most controversial proposed fracking sites have reacted with astonishment after it emerged fracking companies themselves may be placed in charge of surveying local opinion on whether drilling […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Environmentalists and the renewable industry chiefs have tentatively welcomed the Liz Truss government’s plan to end a de facto ban on onshore windfarms in England. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget “growth plan” said the government would […] More
