The French parliament agreed on Thursday to adopt a carbon tax in the new year that will reduce the public deficit and promote clean energy and...
HM Revenue and Customs has “lost its nerve” in the fight against tax avoidance by multinational corporations and wealthy individuals, a committee of MPs has claimed....
The biggest reforms to the UK banking sector since the privatisation of the banks under Margaret Thatcher’s government have been formally approved by the Queen. The...
£3.5 billion will be taken from the government’s farming subsidies budget for efforts to improve England’s environment, it has been announced. On Thursday, the Department for...
Ministers from across Europe have put the finishing touches to blueprints that will give the European Central Bank (ECB) the power to close troubled lenders when...
A group of MPs are calling for greater restrictions on payday loan firms’ advertising strategies, after a report by the Citizens Advice Bureau revealed they were...
The government has approved plans for a 1.3km quay, along with facilities for building and assembling offshore wind turbines, in North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire. Work on...
More than half of councils in England that preside over greenbelt land are preparing to offer some of it to developers, while perfectly suitable brownfield sites...
Twenty Santas have delivered a tonne of coal to high street bank HSBC, as part of the World Development Movement’s (WDM) protest against the financing of...
The much-debated energy bill has received the royal seal of approval from the Queen, meaning that it is now an official act of parliament. After receiving...
US environmentalist Bill McKibben has argued that the Obama administration has continued to promote the extraction of polluting fossil fuels – the majority of which need...
A new study has found that more than half of corporations are emitting unsustainable levels of CO2 when the figures are assessed from a science perspective....
British firm BP has announced it has made a “significant oil discovery” at the Gila prospect in the Gulf of Mexico – its first since US...
The Bank of England has announced that plastic banknotes are to be brought into circulation in the UK by 2016. It says they will bring greater...
The 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists, held by Russian authorities since a protest at an Arctic oil rig in September, are to be set freed,...