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Hydrogen Times
Did you know that, from 2025, the government was planning to impose a £118 / year charge on domestic energy bills to cover the cost of producing hydrogen. Me neither, and I try to keep an eye on such things....
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People on lower incomes drive older cars
Who do you suppose said this: "We need to be conscious about the economic effects that any measures have on different groups within society, because we know that people on lower incomes tend to drive older cars that are going...
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Brave new shivering world
I have long thought that the scribblings of the green wonks at the Climate Change Committee need greater scrutiny that they routinely get. That might be beginning to happen given the recent coverage of the Committee's Sixth Carbon Budget report....
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Germany Watching
It's good to keep an eye on Germany when it comes to climate and (de)industrialisation policy, particularly as the Greens are in power. Well, they seem to be both in power and in opposition these days – see this from...
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Biting the hand that feeds you
I see that the RSPB is in the news again for all the wrong reasons – a twitter comment of course. I understand that it has taken around £78m of funding from the government since 2018, with grants currently running...
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When words don't mean what they say
No one has a good word to say about air pollution as it can cause much misery, illness and even death – or, perhaps. more accurately, to be a significant contributor to all these. The Mayor of London's Office is...
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Best of British Litter
It’s been a record year at the Reading Festival – for litter. If you doubt it click here. The festival made much of its strict policies on cultural appropriation – no ponchos here please – but seemed to play down environmental...
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Conservation and Trophies
The following are the signatories to a letter in the Times today calling for a rethink of the draft Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill which is currently meandering through the House of Lords. Professor Adam Hart, University of Gloucestershire; Professor...
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Reliance on the self-interest of strangers
It came as rather a shock to find out that the UK no longer makes ammonia after CF Fertilisers’ decision last month to permanently close its ammonia production on Teeside. MSM has the details. Sadly, given its economic significance, there...
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Classroom environmental education doesn’t change attitudes ...
A press release from the University of Bath came my way. It concerned some environmental education research by the Milner Centre for Evolution. The headline said: Classroom environmental education doesn’t change attitudes - new research I thought this was a...
