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Reducing funding for household generation of renewable energy will jeopardise job creation and energy security, Huhne is toldA coalition of green, countryside and housing groups has warned energy secretary Chris Huhne not...

Severe weather forces campaigners to give up their perilous position on British-owned rig off the coast of Greenland• Greenpeace 'shuts down' Arctic oil rigFour Greenpeace activists who halted drilling by a British-owned...

Environmental campaigners slip through security boats to scale Cairn Energy oil rig in dawn raidGreenpeace claims to have shut down offshore drilling by a British oil company at a controversial site in the Arctic after four...

Regulator and builders blame each other for construction hold-up as designs await approvalThe schedule for the UK's nuclear reactor building programme has slipped behind already, the safety regulator has admitted, reinforcing...

Energy company says 12 million homeowners could save £1,000 a year, as it looks to take advantage of government schemeMore than 12 million homeowners would be in line to save up to £1,000 a year, should they install solar...

Energy efficiency scheme funded by energy company Calor identifies Berwick-upon-Tweed among most fuel-poor rural areasSuffolk, Northumberland and Nottinghamshire contain the most areas of fuel poverty in rural England, according...

Britain's finest export could soon be powering our cars• Scottish scientists develop whisky biofuelIs there no bad news about whisky? Yes, admitted, it can lead you to odd places – specifically to a culvert off the M62...

The church has joined a coalition of groups opposing plans to construct a plant at Hunterston on the west coast of ScotlandThe Church of Scotland claims a new coal-fired power station planned in Ayrshire could seriously jeopardise...

By-products from distilling process could be used to power cars and even aviation, according to researchers in EdinburghIt gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "one for the road"...

As we look for alternatives to oil, our familiar pattern of meadows and pastures could become interspersed with biofuel plantationsYesterday Dustin Benton of the Campaign to Protect Rural England criticised the vision for...

Victory by Fife-based BiFab raises the prospect of thousands of new jobs for ScotlandA Scottish company has won the contract to build one of the world's most advanced tidal energy turbines.The contract could kickstart a marine...

Ecologists warn cuts will hamper efforts to set up marine conservation areas and safely build offshore windfarmsPlans to set up a network of marine conservation areas and safely build vast offshore windfarms and deep-sea...

Exclusive: Government's decision to put pollution standards 'on hold' raises possibility of dirtiest coal plants going aheadThe coalition is watering down a commitment to tough new environmental emissions standards, raising...

With companies offering to fit homes with solar panels for free, experts say you can save more by paying for them yourself• Q&A: Feed-in tariffsHouseholders tempted by a rash of new "solar for free" offers could double...

Energy secretary lifts ban on the sale of surplus electricity to the national grid as UK aims to meet EU energy targetsLocal councils will be allowed to sell renewable electricity to the National Grid from today, with the...