The 'Autumn Statement' delivered with such aplomb by the Chancellor is yet another attack on the UK's sustainable future, write David Lowry & Oliver Tickell - cutting energy efficiency funds just as tens of thousands are set to die of cold this winter, betting £250m on pointless nuclear research, and raiding the renewables budget to fund subsidies to nuclear power and fossil fuels.
… power stations for providing capacity as 'environmental' levies'" , writes Toke. "Real environmental spending will fall as result and … The inclusion of the capacity mechanism under environmental levies is very serious indeed. …
New regulations that will allow fracking under national parks, water sources and nature sites won the approval of MPs today in a Commons vote, write Kyla Mandel & Oliver Tickell, even though four Tory MP's rebelled against the party whip. But the new rules won't apply in Wales and Scotland.
… vote, including London mayoral candidate, environmental campaigner and former Ecologist … groundwater contamination is the 'biggest environmental risk' of fracking. What's more, … believe that they go far enough to protect environmentally sensitive areas such as Areas …
The UK has just opened a bidding round for fracking licences. But the rules contain only weak protections against fracking in National Parks and AONBs - and none at all for even the most important wildlife sites and drinking water aquifers.
… landscape and scenic beauty where the environmental and heritage qualities need to … Areas, Ramsar Convention wetlands or Environmentally Sensitive Areas - which are to …
When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill buried 300 acres of waterfront property in a white, middle class suburb, the waste was treated as a toxic hazard. But by the time it reached Uniontown, a black community in Alabama, that was all forgotten. Now they are fighting back.
… - and found that the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) had reissued … investigates Investigators from the US Environmental Protection Agency last week …
In the run-up to the COP21 climate summit in Paris the G20's Antalya Communiqué is weaker on climate, fossil fuel subsidies and support for renewable energy than the G20's 2009 Pittsburgh Statement made shortly before the failed COP15 in Copenhagen six years ago.
… climate talks in Paris, is feeble on all environmental issues and lacks clear …
The latest version of the Infrastructure Bill released today has been amended to avoid defining the areas that will be protected from fracking, leaving that to 'regulations' to be pushed through after the general election. So if the Tories win, get ready for fracking everywhere!
… for a fracking moratorium, demanded by the Environmental Audit Committee, the details of …
Romania - A leading human rights group has charged the Government with serious violations of the human rights of inhabitants of Pungesti following protests against pre-fracking gas exploration by Chevron.
… between local people and between them and the environmental activists present." Further …
India's renewable power capacity is set to reach 170GW by 2022, write Areeba Hamid & Oliver Tickell - reducing power shortages and bringing electricity to off-grid of rural communities for the first time. But it may also have an unintended consequence - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future profitability evaporate..
… Indigenous Peoples. This gives rise to environmental conflicts over forest clearance, …
Would UKIP be riding so high if voters knew of the party's links with powerful right-wing US corporate interests promoting fossil fuels, denying climate change, opposing gun control, and supporting big tobacco, teaching creationism in schools, healthcare privatisation and the lifting of nuclear power regulation? An Ecologist investigation exposes the real UKIP.
… I did not. (I also talk to trade unions and environmental groups from time to time). Do …