After landing £6.4 million in funding from the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government, Tidal Energy Ltd will deploy Wales’ very first full-scale tidal stream energy generator, the company announced today.
A £15 million Government grant scheme to pump-prime a major home eco heating programme and create jobs is set to launch next month.
An agreement reached late last week means the global shipping industry will for thefirst time adopt legally binding regulations to tackle its growing carbon footprint, through an energy efficiency ratings system.
British Gas, which just a few days ago announced massive hikes in both its electricity and gas prices, has today become the first energy supplier to launch a Green Deal-style offering, promising to slash householders’ energy bills.
Schoolchildren selling wonky carrots and soil-encrusted radishes will on Thursday be trying to tempt Waitrose shoppers to reject the supermarket’s washed, bagged versions and instead stock up on fresh produce grown by their local schools.
In a move that should steady investor nerves and bring down the cost of offshore wind, developers have been told they will get compensated if their projects are terminated because oil and gas reserves are found in the same area.
A new EPA rule puts 18 aging coal plants on a path to being cleaned up or retired and another EPA rule on haze could affect a total of 300 coal facilities.
The EPA is acting on its Clean Air Act mandate to collaborate with states to reduce haze.
This milestone agreement comes after the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Parks Conservation Association and WildEarth Guardians filed a lawsuit early in 2011 challenging the EPA’s failure to act.
According to a June agreement filed in the US District Court in Colorado, the EPA will be…
Last week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it added protections to the Clean Air Act aimed at reducing smokestack emissions that are responsible for causing air pollution in neighboring cities and states. The protections are aimed to replace the EPA’s 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). According to the EPA, “a December 2008 court decision kept the requirements of CAIR in place temporarily but directed EPA to issue a new rule to implement Clean Air Act requirements concerning the transport of air pollution across state boundaries.”
The regulations were updated in order to protect those living downwind of…
Paul Zoubkov and Helen Turek talk about Transparency International’s (TI) Europe wide initiative to improve national anti-corruption systems.
Good governance, accountability and rule of law are among the key hallmarks of a healthy society, and yet right across Europe, there is a deep sense of frustration that key national institutions and actors are not living up to the expected standards of integrity.
A recent EU-funded study, has found that almost four in five EU citizens identify corruption as being a major problem for their country, while TI’s own Global Corruption Barometer has shown almost equal numbers consider corruption getting worse in…
On July 1, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) released its much-anticipated “Preliminary Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) on the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program.” Behind its fearsome name, this document outlines the parameters for a regulatory regime surrounding hydraulic fracturing in New York. The Preliminary Revised Draft SGEIS was undertaken after NYSDEC received thousands of public comments in response to the first Draft SGEIS it released in September 2009.
New York’s acceptance of hydraulic fracturing stands in contrast to recent developments in New Jersey andFrance, where legislators recently passed bills…