Why Carbon Capture is crucial if industry is to cut emissions
In the past two years, six major Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) projects in the UK have been shelved. Its potential…
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Why it’s so hard to trace the patterns of unsustainable fossil fuel use
Our future depends on a transition away from fossil fuels. To map out a path, we need to get to…
Fracking boom equivalent to 300 million car emissions
Plans to force through fracking in the UK could release CO2 equivalent to the lifetime emissions of nearly 300 million…
‘World’s first’ as Drax capture CO2 at biomass plant
In a world’s first pilot, a demonstration plant at Drax power station in North Yorkshire is successfully using carbon capture technology….
Bexley incinerator should be refused on air quality grounds, says MP
Labour MP John Cruddas says a proposed second waste incinerator at the ‘green’ Riverside Energy Park in Bexley should be…
New Drax gas plant ‘significant’ threat to UK emissions targets, warn lawyers
A new gas plant in North Yorkshire would produce 75% of the emissions budget for the entire UK power sector,…
Incinerator emissions ‘not linked to infant mortality risk’
Long-running work to assess the health impact of emissions from waste incinerators has suggested that there is no increased risk…
Defra rebuts claim of ‘weakening’ EfW emissions standards
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has rebutted claims that it supports proposals to ‘weaken’ European standards…
