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Scottish energy management firm, Ewgeco, is embarking on an expansion drive to bring its pioneering real-time energy display monitoring system to businesses across the UK.
The Solar Trade Association (STA) has added its voice to the growing chorus calling on the Government to freeze further cut to the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) for solar electricity in July.
The advertising watchdog has banned Greenpeace from running a campaign protesting against coal-fired power stations.
Boris Johnson says he will make green jobs and growth key priorities of his second term of office as Mayor of London, including scaling up green building retrofit programmes across the capital.
The Government should do more to help green industries boost economic growth, stop the UK falling behind international rivals, and avoid losing its global leadership on the environment, William Hague has told Cabinet colleagues, in a private letter seen by the Guardian.
In a move that should encourage the take-up of electric car use, leading car rental company Hertz is planning to launch a new electric vehicle (EV) car share scheme in Oxford.
Consumer goods group Unilever has teamed up with two Essex councils to get householders to cut down on the amount of food waste they send to landfill.
The cross-Channel train operator Eurostar is looking to cement its reputation as the greenest option for short-haul international travel in Europe by adding up to 10 new destinations.
Twenty years on from the Rio Earth summit, the environment of the planet is getting worse not better, according to a report from WWF.
The UK construction sector is to benefit from £1 million to bolster its transition to the low carbon economy, it was announced by Business Minister Mark Prisk.
Energy Secretary Ed Davey has called on Europe to focus on cutting carbon emissions rather than repeating existing renewable energy targets that expire at the end of the decade.
The Green Deal and other initiatives to get the public to reduce energy use are likely to fail without a national communications strategy backed by central Government, warns a new report by green think tank, the Green Alliance.
Energy Minister Charles Hendry says the UK's roll-out of smart meters will create £7bn in benefits and help slash the nation's carbon emissions.
Large parts of England are no longer in drought, after the wettest April since records began in 1910 and continuing rain this month.
Leading UK anaerobic digestion (AD) company Biogen has been fined £5,000 for polluting a stretch of a Bedfordshire stream.
