Drax Group has won a High Court battle to overturn the government’s ruling that one of its coal-to-biomass conversion projects was ineligible for a new subsidy...
Environmental group WWF has criticised the National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios report because it “underestimates threat of coal”. The organisation states that the report assumes that...
The Labour party has pledged to mobilise investment in the development of carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) if it wins the next general election. In...
Despite renewable energy experiencing incredible growth last year, many parts of the world are still hooked on cheap and polluting coal, according to oil giant BP’s...
The US government has intervened in an ongoing court battle between the coal industry and the environmental campaign group WildEarth Guardians, which is challenging unsustainable mining...
UK energy firm Essar and partner Hindalco had plans approved by the previous Indian government to mine Mahan forest of Madhya Pradesh for its coal reserves,...
Clean energy sources generated around 20% of British electricity between January and March, thanks to strong performances by the wind and hydro sectors, according to the...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
When China’s rapidly transitioning energy sector is considered, investments in thermal coal assets are “high risk”, according to a new report from the Carbon Tracker Initiative...
US president Barack Obama’s new proposals to fight climate change and slash carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants could boost investment in the renewables and nuclear...
Some 67 University of Oxford academics, including the former science adviser to the British government, have called on the institution to divest from fossil fuel companies....
Four people are seriously injured and one still missing after a 998-tonne oil tanker owned by Syoho Shopping exploded off the south-west coast of Japan. The...
Chloe Maxmin, co-ordinator of the student-led Divest Harvard initiative, describes her fight to get the prestigious US university to ditch its fossil fuel investments. Two things...
Deutsche Bank has announced that it will not support the controversial expansion of an Australian coal port that environmentalists fear may threaten the Great Barrier Reef....