More than a quarter of newly approved oil and gas blocks fall in marine protected areas
At the end of last month, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), a regulatory body responsible for overseeing oil and gas operations in the UK,…
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Carbon freebies: How UK firms can close factories and make millions on the carbon market
A little-known government scheme designed to encourage businesses to reduce emissions allowed one company to make £32m on the carbon market after closing a factory…
How the beef industry is trying to change the maths of climate change
Fresh off the heels of a major methane ‘win’ at the Glasgow climate summit, the American beef lobby is leading a global effort to change…
Inside Exxon’s playbook: How America’s biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change
ExxonMobil continues to fight efforts to tackle climate change in the United States, despite publicly claiming to support the Paris climate agreement, an undercover investigation…
Thousands of tonnes of banned pesticides shipped to poorer countries from British and European factories
Year long investigation reveals full scale of Europe’s ‘abhorrent’ trade in pesticides banned from its own farms – and the UK’s leading role The United…
Analysis: global plastics boom fueled 2018 CO2 emissions rise
The world added more non-fossil power last year than ever before, but energy demand rose by even more. Last year’s rise in global CO2 emissions…
Oil majors withhold support for ambitious EU climate target
BP and Shell declined to back a plan to reduce European greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 Oil giants BP and Shell have…
China’s power industry calls for hundreds of new coal power plants by 2030
Under the proposal, the country could add a large coal power plant every 2 weeks for the next 12 years The largest power producers in…
China’s CO2 emissions surged in 2018 despite clean energy gains
China’s CO2 emissions grew by approximately 3% last year, the largest rise since at least 2013, and all but ensuring global CO2 emissions also increased last year,…
Japan’s nuclear rethink could derail UK energy plans
The planned nuclear power plant in Wales is looking increasingly precarious Update: Reports in the Japanese press claim Hitachi is set to suspend all work on Wylfa,…
India’s enormous solar power plan: Is it for real?
The Indian government has eyes on the solar prize (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) The Indian government has a habit of making ambitious promises and…
The trouble with Wylfa’s reactor
Projects using this reactor type have suffered setbacks and slowdowns around the world Hitachi is seeking billions of pounds from the British government to help build…
Nuclear power is failing worldwide, it’s time for Hammond to back away
It must be hard being a civil servant. Think about the gyrations they must perform trying to justify the UK nuclear power programme. They cannot…
National Grid vs The Beast from the East — are we really going to run out of gas?
As the UK battled a major snowstorm, it also started to run dangerously low on gas. So what happened? And what does it mean for…