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The powerful few who benefit from the fossil fuel status quo are exerting their influence

With the government aiming to clean up the UK’s air quality, wood burners and open fires are likely to come under scrutinyMillions of households with open fires and wood-burning stoves could face curbs on their use after...

Welsh scheme will factor in home’s energy efficiency into lenders’ affordability calculations

Citizens Advice says silence on energy efficiency plans will mean households lose out

The big firms have raised tariffs to within a pound of the prepayment-meter maximum. What price government promises of savings now?Many of the 5 million vulnerable households who already have their energy bills capped will...

Each Australian uses an average of 100,000 litres of water a year, and our electricity use is extreme. Our series Life Swaps looks at ways to reduce the load

Harold Forbes says the principle of polluter pays is rarely implemented; Jeremy Tomkinson calls for clear policy on lowering petrol emissions; Chris Tidmarsh laments the sparsity of electric-car charging points in Southwark...

It’s a simple idea: strip CO2 from the air and use it to produce carbon-neutral fuel. But can it work on an industrial scale?It’s nothing much to look at, but the tangle of pipes, pumps, tanks, reactors, chimneys and...

Donal Boyle says Historic England must preserve some of the country’s cooling towers; while David Smythe says there is no justification for fracking in the UKWe are in danger of losing a major feature of the late 20th-century...

Government extends deadline for installation of older model despite interoperability issues

Charging point manufacturer’s CEO warns that UK power grid needs to handle expected 9m electric vehicles by 2030

Jenny Jones says the UK must respond proactively to news that China has banned imports of millions of tons of plastic wasteThis could be the year we start burning more of our waste than recycling it (China’s plastic waste...

Government unveils phase-out plan, with one of eight remaining power stations to stop generating electricity this year

Advanced plans by Dutch power grid aims to build power hub possibly at Dogger Bank whose scale would dwarf current offshore sites

Plan to make landlords improve draughtiest homes and boost energy efficiency for hundreds of thousands of tenants lay in tatters, say critics