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Environment

Who's telling tales?

04 March 2010

Media regulator Ofcom has been pitched into the row over the government's Bedtime Stories television ad, part of its Act... ...more »

Tags: Climate Change, emissions

Price fix:

18 December 2009

Construction industry workers recently staged a demo outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Two giant ten pence coins... ...more »

Tags: renewables

Shedding some light on economists

21 October 2009

Now here's an intriguing factoid. Guess how many economists are employed by the Department of Energy and Climate Change? Well,... ...more »

Tags: Climate Change, emissions

Eyes left:

02 October 2009

Environment secretary Hilary Benn looked a tad distracted at this photo opportunity in Yorkshire recently. The secretary of state, a... ...more »

Tags: environment, politics

Make yourself comfortable... and move on

12 June 2009

How's this for serendipity? Last Thursday it was oral questions to the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the... ...more »

Tags: Climate Change, policy

Shining a light on the great CFL give-away

08 May 2009

And so to Andrew Warren, the opinionated director of the Association for the Conservation of Energy. In one of his... ...more »

Tags: energy efficiency

Now you see it... now you won't...

24 April 2009

Pictured is an artist's impression of part of last year's redevelopment plans for London landmark and icon, Battersea Power Station.... ...more »

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Generating much sound and fury

20 March 2009

Last week, there was a flurry of media attention about last year's Climate Camp action targeting Kingsnorth power station and... ...more »

Tags: Eon, Kingsnorth, protest

The mystery of the dead cockles

04 February 2009

Things are getting a bit heated down Llanelli way where millions of pounds of development have been put on hold... ...more »

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A picture paints a thousand lies

04 February 2009

Labour peer Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe has been getting a tad tetchy in the Upper House. Recently he complained that... ...more »

Tags: renewables, wind

That name sucks... or does it blow?

15 October 2008

Most protest groups spend an inordinate amount of time trying to choose a name for themselves that provides a pithy... ...more »

Tags: wind

How to win things but alienate people

01 October 2008

Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg managed to get right up the noses of environmentalists by suggesting that the poor of the... ...more »

Tags: Climate Change

Getting control of unwanted gasses

10 September 2008

More good news. The great man was encouraged by the news that farming boffins have come up with a super... ...more »

Tags: Emissions, gas

Young are heart

09 July 2008

So farewell Baroness Young, until very recently chief executive of the Environment Agency. She is now shadow chairman of the... ...more »

Tags: Environment Agency

Who doesn't want to know?

02 July 2008

So, what are we to make of a recent survey publicised by Friends of the Earth which found that -... ...more »

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Cows go on climate change diet

25 July 2007

And here's a sign of the times. Climate change and global warning coverage has become so ubiquitous in the UK... ...more »

Tags: Climate Change, Cows