Activists upbeat despite 10:10 defeat

The Guardian today reports the defeat of a Liberal Democrat motion calling for the Government to sign up to the 10:10 campaign. But activists were today in buoyant mood praising quickly coordinated online action that provoked impressive levels of public engagement and new money from the Government for energy efficiency measures in local authorities.

Griffin: climate change is an elite scam

In the week of his controversial appearance on Question Time, Nick Griffin has added environmentalists and climate change to his list of targets. Speaking in a debate on climate change in the European Parliament yesterday, Nick Griffin said: “The globaltest

TaxPayers’ Alliance’s US scare tactics uncovered

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the right wing pressure group TaxPayers’ Alliance and a former adviser to Conservative Party parliamentarians, has been in the US in recent weeks helping his Republican friends to try and defeat Obama’s plans for atest

Green MEPs round on Cameron

Two senior Green MEPs have spoken out against David Cameron’s decision to move Conservative MEPs from the European People’s Party grouping to the new European Conservative and Reformists, criticising his decision to join forces with people who “deny that theretest

Letwin proposes retrofit of all homes by 2017

Oliver Letwin this afternoon announced radical new plans to retrofit the entire British housing stock. But the proposals, which appeared to preempt a speech by Greg Clark tomorrow, provoked questions over the cost and feasibility of the proposals.

E.ON chief: No new nuclear before 2020

The chief executive of E.ON UK, Paul Golby, has told Reuters news agency that he does not believe any new nuclear station will come online before 2020 saying, “It’s clearly not possible to accelerate the build time.”

US climate deal “unlikely this year”

Left Foot Forward is in Madrid today for the Global Progress conference, organised by the Center for American Progress and Ideas Foundation. Kicking off the day, Jen Palmieri – a former deputy press secretary to President Bill Clinton and Seniortest