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July 18, 2008
Biogas backed by government
Fifty senior industry and NGO executives met Defra ministers today to discuss multi-million pound plans to make greater use of anaerobic digestion - the technology which produces energy from organic material like food waste and manure.
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Climate change: US environmental agency delays emissions regulation until end of Bush term
The US environmental protection agency (EPA) announced today that no action will be taken to regulate carbon emissions while George Bush remains president.
Britain: a leader in tackling climate change? Far from it, says new report
Britain's true contribution to global warming is much higher than official figures show, ministers admit. And it has been rising rapidly at the very time that they have been boasting that it has been falling.
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Whitehall bid to cut IT emissions
The government hopes to be the first in the world to make its computer system "carbon neutral".
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Gore challenges US to ditch oil
The Nobel laureate and former US vice- president, Al Gore, has urged Americans to abandon electricity generated by fossil fuels within a decade.
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