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Unless the energy bill mandates tighter emissions standards for coal-fired power stations, the UK will miss its carbon-cut targetsThe future of coal-fired power stations is a burning issue...

Questions about financing and internal dissent will dog the Conservatives' newly revived home energy efficiency schemeJust when we were beginning to think that David Cameron had forgotten his former rallying call to "Vote...

Some 125,000 new boilers and doubling of commitment to carbon capture and storage included in Alistair Darling's speechHouseholders will be able to trade in their old boilers for newer, more efficient models under plans announced...

Ground pumps could help UK meet renewable energy targets by 2020, Environment Agency report saysRenewable technology that uses energy stored in the ground to heat buildings and provide hot water could be installed in hundreds...

Climate change secretary taken to task by users of parents' website Mumsnet after admitting he uses disposable nappies for his six-month-old sonEd Miliband risked blotting his copybook on the environment by admitting he uses...

Ahead of the Copenhagen summit, leading scientist and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri warns of radical charges and regulation if global disaster is to be avoidedHotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation...

The Conservatives' Green Deal would help to greatly reduce the 27% of UK carbon emissions that comes from householdsNext month world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to thrash out a deal to tackle climate change...

The Conservatives make an ambitious pitch to win the environmental vote with a raft of measuresThe Conservatives will tomorrow make an ambitious pitch to win the environmental vote with a raft of measures including plans...

Fifteen grand to green my home, Adair? Yeah, right: a new boiler blew half that. Beating climate change is complex and costlyA £15,000 price tag to green your home? You have to be joking. That headline had me spluttering...

The head of Britain's climate change watchdog predicted today that households will need to spend up to £15,000 on a full energy efficiency makeover if the government is to meet its ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions.

The government is paving the way for a huge expansion of nuclear power – but would you live near a power station?A new nuclear power station in Hinkley, Somerset, is a step closer to becoming reality and could be operational...

"No government has sought to influence me in any way whatever," declared Sir Frank Layfield before giving the go ahead for the last nuclear power station to be built in Britain...

Eleven sites for nuclear reactors announced as part of UK energy strategy that includes 'clean coal' and wind powerA new fleet of nuclear power stations was today backed by the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, as he outlined...

Government will identify sites around Britain suitable for building nuclear plants as part of new energy policyEd Miliband, the energy and climate change secretary, insisted today that nuclear power had a "relatively good"...

An FoE reports says 'cap and trade' carbonn markets have done little to reduce emissions but have been plagued by corruption and inefficiencyThe world's carbon trading markets growing complexity threatens another "sub-prime"...