Another call for earlier ban on flaring in oil and gas fields
Routine flaring on oil and gas fields should be banned by 2025, a review of the government’s net zero strategy has concluded.
Routine flaring on oil and gas fields should be banned by 2025, a review of the government’s net zero strategy has concluded.
The Court of Appeal has rejected a legal challenge to UK government investment of $1.15bn in a liquified natural gas project in Mozambique.
Three leading oil and gas operators have been fined a total of £265,000 over breaching UK flaring and production agreements.
Scotland’s progress on carbon-cutting targets has largely stalled, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has concluded.
The climate-damaging gas methane is still being released at English onshore oil sites, a year after researchers revealed the problem.
The COP27 climate conference ended in Egypt today with a landmark agreement to compensate poorer countries that are the victims of climate change. But there was little progress in tacking emissions from burning fossil fuels, the root cause of global warming.
International efforts to replace gas supplies from Russia threaten the 1.5˚C warming limit, new analysis has shown.
The UK government is failing in its commitment that the public sector should “lead by example” on decarbonisation, MPs said today.
Preparation for fracking at a site in a North Yorkshire village saw nitrogen oxides pollution peak to levels comparable with the morning rush hour in North Kensington, research has revealed.
Two sides in the planning dispute over long-term oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds get the chance to put their case at a hearing next week.