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Ben & Jerry’s Joins the Campaign to Support Onshore Windfarms
Tubs of Strawberry Breeze-cake, Cherry Gale-cia and other wind-themed ice-creams will feature in a campaign by Ben & Jerry’s to persuade the government to rethink its opposition to onshore windfarms.The renamed flavours...
Construction Delays Make New Nuclear Power Plants Costlier than Ever
The cost of building new nuclear power plants is nearly 20 per cent higher than expected due to delays, a new analysis has found.A new analysis of the history of nuclear power...
Iceland first UK supermarket to trial deposit return scheme
Iceland has become the first supermarket in the UK to trial the plastic bottle deposit return scheme.
It has installed a reverse vending machine at its store in Fulham, London, as part of...
World’s Largest Battery and Rapid-Charge Network Launches to Accelerate EV Adoption
London-based Pivot Power unveiled plans to build the world's first national network of grid-scale batteries and rapid-charge stations across the UK to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption and to usher in low-carbon...
Electric Buses Put the Big Hurt on Fossil Fuel Companies
Change is a funny thing. You can’t see it, hear it, feel it, or taste it, but one day you look around and suddenly, there it is. Isbrand Ho, managing director for...
Highly charged: Complaints as Electric Car Points Block City Pavements
Cities across the world are rushing to install charging points to encourage and keep up with demand from increasing numbers of electric vehicles. By the end of last year there were almost...
UK Carbon Emissions Fall to 1890 Levels
The last time annual UK carbon dioxide emissions were as consistently low as they are currently air travel was still an unproven invention and Oscar Wilde was preparing to publish his first...
High Court In UK Rules That Current Air Pollution Mitigation Plans Aren’t Enough, Must Be Improved
The air pollution mitigation plans in place in the UK currently aren’t enough on their own to address the issue, and need to be improved, the union’s High Court has ruled, according...
City of London Switches on Energy Efficient Lighting Strategy
A set of innovative proposals to deliver more energy efficient use of lighting for buildings across the Square Mile are being drawn up by the City of London Corporation.
The local authority claims...
Report Shows Half of Public Buses Will be Electric by 2025
The total number of electric buses servicing the public will more than triple by 2025, according to a new report released by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). In 2017, there were 386,000...
Red Flag for Air Quality as London Breaches Pollution Limit
London has officially broken annual legal limits for air pollution, sparking fresh calls for the government to take urgent action to improve air quality in the UK.
According to provisional data released today...
Energy for Londoners: Mayor Powers Up £34m Solar and Energy Efficiency Plan
Mayor Sadiq Khan officially launched the latest phase of the Energy for Londoners initiative yesterday, detailing plans to invest £34m in a range of new services and programmes designed to boost energy...
London CO2 Cuts Must be ‘More Ambitious in Scale and Pace’, Mayoral Body Warns
London's economy has grown as greenhouse gas emissions have fallen over the past five years, but future decarbonisation in the capital will "need to be significantly more ambitious both in scale and...
Air Pollution Harm to Unborn Babies May Be Global Health Catastrophe
Air pollution significantly increases the risk of low birth weight in babies, leading to lifelong damage to health, according to a large new study.
The research was conducted in London, UK, but its implications...
Coffee-Fuelled Commute? London Buses to Run on Fuel Made from Used Coffee Ground
Oil giant Shell and UK start-up bio-bean have teamed up on a project to provide a low carbon biofuel for London buses that contains waste coffee grounds collected from high-street retailers.
The B20...
Diesels in London Face Parking Charge Hike
Drivers of the most polluting diesels already face steep congestion charges to enter London's city centre, and now they will also have to pay more to park across two central boroughs.
Islington Council...