Labout has announced it will stop issuing any new oil and gas drilling licences if it wins the next general election.
Sir Keir Starmer’s government would instead invest heavily in renewable sources – wind, solar hydro – and nuclear power “to invest in the green jobs of the future ”, reduce bills and “create a more sustainable energy supply,” said...
England’s most polluting water company gives £300 million to shareholders
England’s most polluting water company is handing more than £300 million to shareholders despite profits slumping by more than 25%.
It comes a day after Severn Trent announced it was paying its shareholders an increased dividend of £261 million. Earlier this...
Environment
XR to target Westminster for ‘the Big One’ and four days of protest
XR (Extinction Rebellion) have warned the government of “unprecedented” civil disobedience with more than 30,000 activists signed up to protest around Westminster for four days, starting on Friday (April...
Environment
AA joins calls to scrap all smart motorways
The AA is urging the government to go further and scrap all existing smart motorways after plans to extend the network were cancelled. The UK’s largest motoring organisation has joined...
Environment
Major incident declared after oil leak at Poole Harbour
A major incident has been declared after an oil and reservoir fluids leak from Britain’s largest onshore oilfield into Poole Harbour on England’s south west coast. Around 200 barrels of...
New year, new tactics for Extinction Rebellion because ‘nothing has changed’
Extinction Rebellion (XR) has announced it is pausing its campaign of civil disruption in 2023 but vowed to continue to protest against the “abuse of power” by vested interests.
Hundreds of members of the environmental...
Government’s coal mine decision is a ‘climate crime against humanity’
Caroline Lucas, the UK’s only Green party MP has accused Rishi Sunak’s government of committing “a climate crime against humanity” by approving a “toxic” new coal mine in Cumbria.
A host of other critics have...
Police arrest journalists at Just Stop Oil protest
Police have arrested and held for 13 hours a documentary filmmaker and a press photographer filming a Just Stop Oil protest on the M25.
Police also searched one of their homes at 11pm and seized...
Sunak bans fracking while Starmer slams PM’s ‘grubby deal’ with Braverman
Rishi Sunak has reversed one of Liz Truss’s key policies by committing his government to the fracking ban.
The new prime minister told the Commons he “stands by the manifesto” which pledged to ban fracking...
‘We’re not a nanny state’ – PM blocks plan to battle blackouts
Britons will not be told to use less energy this winter because “we’re not a nanny state”, climate minister Graham Stuart said in response to news the UK faces blackouts this winter.
Households and businesses...