With just six years left in its ‘carbon budget’, the East of England is running out of time to take drastic climate action. Catherine Rowett, MEP for the East of England, has published a ...
MEPs voted to support the European Commission’s Green Deal for Europe this week, with 482 votes in favour against 136 against and 95 abstentions, a development welcomed by Green MEPs, tho...
The Green Party’s ambitious Green New Deal aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, pledging to do so by replacing all fossil fuels with renewable energy. Placing the wind energ...
After repeated pressure from the Greens, the European Investment Bank has announced a new energy policy which will divest from fossil fuel projects and accelerate progress towards climate...
After years of fervent activism in communities up and down the country, the government has finally announced a moratorium on the hydraulic fracturing of shale gas. But can we really celeb...
“This is one campaign with a clear end goal that can only be achieved if we work together.”
For 1,000 days, anti-fracking activists have campaigned at Preston New Road in Lancashire, us...
A report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed that progress in fracking has been much slower than the government initially expected. Having cost the taxpayer more than £32 mi...
Anti-fracking campaigners have begun to return to Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site near Lancashire as the oil and gas exploration company announced it would be resuming drilling at the s...
“We’re now old, but we inherited a healthy and clean environment from our fathers and it’s our duty to give our children a clean and healthy environment as well.” Alan Story reports on th...
The UK already has more coal than it needs and is supposed to be phasing out the fuel by 2025 – but more open-cast mines are being planned in the North East, where they will not only blig...
