In a recent debate in the House of Lords, the Conservative energy minister Lord Marland – who will be overseeing the passage of upcoming new energy legislation through the House of Lords – appeared to contradict his minister in thetest
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published an article today showing that it won’t be easy for the Coalition Government to meet the Conservatives’ pre-election pledge to “increase the proportion of tax revenue accounted for by environmental taxes”.
The EU tax proposed by France would cover energy for heating and fuel, applying to households and to sectors of the economy not covered by the EU’s emissions trading scheme.
In the first of two new soon-to-be-published papers, ippr’s study ‘Green and Decent Jobs’ discusses how far the creation of new green jobs could counteract unemployment in the UK.
An analysis published this week by the Green Alliance and the Policy Studies Institute argues there would be economic, environmental and equity benefits if the Government got rid of aviation tax breaks.
The economic Lib Dems are seemingly finding common ground with Tory ideology, but the sticking point was and is always going to be the other side of the Lib Dem fence where Mr Huhne and the like reside.
Once again, evidence is mounting that the cost to Britain of nuclear power is spiralling.
A slew of recent reports, profiled at a conference organised on Friday by the UK Energy Research Centre, have challenged the myths on renewable energy.
The parties have seen eye-to-eye in this area on scrapping the Heathrow expansion plans, for example, and on new emissions standards for power plants.
The Conservative Party are keen to open up offshore drilling. They want to open up an area of Ocean important for its whale and dolphin populations.
