The government risks undermining its goals to cut methane emissions without stricter regulations on onshore oil and gas operations, environmental campaigners have argued.
The UK government is being urged to adopt tough controls in the coming weeks on methane releases from the oil and gas industry.
The UK government is being urged to cut the price of electricity and come off fossil fuels for most of the economy.
New government guidance on assessing carbon emissions from oil and gas production has been welcomed by environmental campaigners.
The campaigner who won a landmark legal victory at the Supreme Court over the climate impact of burning oil and gas has warned that the judgement is “vulnerable”.
The UK’s first formal assessment of carbon emissions from burning onshore oil has been criticised as “flawed”, “misleading” and “unlawful”.
The UK must swap oil and gas for clean electricity to meet its next set of carbon reduction targets, the government’s climate advisor said today.
Campaigners have visited a fracking site in North Yorkshire which is now piloting renewable energy.
More transparency is needed on progress to ending routine venting and flaring of methane at UK oil and gas sites, a parliamentary report said today.
Delays and U-turns on the climate by the last government have left the UK “overly reliant on expensive fossil fuels”, a new report argues this morning.
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