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Government blows £3m of Green Deal budget on marketing
The Green Deal is failing despite the huge sums invested in promoting it.
DECC
Huhne needs to impose competition on the energy ‘market’
The Government's proposals so far to bring down energy bills are tinkering around the edges - the problem will only be properly tackled when competition is enforced.
Why won’t the government investigate its carbon emissions?
It is the received wisdom that the UK’s emissions are falling. But this is not the case; as academic studies and government briefings show, the UK’s emissions continue to rise, reports Guy Shrubsole.
Huge cuts to climate and environment departments hit Tories’ green claims
Green issues just aren’t as central to the [Tories’] political offer as they once were; green issues are not needed to ‘de-toxify’, because Lib Dems do this.
Treasury trying to shut down climate department and axe clean energy funds
The credibility of the coalition’s claim to be the ‘greenest government ever’ suffered a huge blow today following reports the Treasury is planning to axe DECC.