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What is the Future for British Steel?
Pressures of decarbonisation and evolving international markets could lead to a significant slump in its competitiveness, writes Thomas Perrett

Britain’s Top Lawyers Sign Climate Declaration Refusing to Prosecute Activists
The 120 lawyers signing a ‘Declaration of Conscience’ are slammed by Daily Mail as 'woke'

In Deep Water: As Europe’s Drought Worsens, the Government Remains Silent on Water Company Failures
The Conservatives' inaction to alleviate droughts in England is indicative of the party's wider ideological failings, writes Iain Overton

Can Plans to Decarbonise Heavy Industry in South Wales Deliver?
Andrew Taylor-Dawson reports on £30bn plan which relies on controversial ‘carbon capture’ and appears to be dependent on developing a deregulated Welsh freeport

EXCLUSIVE Save Our Statues: But Cut Down the Trees
After 110 trees were felled overnight in Plymouth, Katherine Denkinson looks at the city's climate-change-sceptic head of Council and his links to the Tufton Street network of lobbyists

‘Cabinet Reshuffles Won’t Fix this Government’s Net Zero Failures’
Thomas Perrett looks at the Whitehall changes over environmental policy, and sees a lot of deckchairs being re-arranged which fail to address the climate emergency

UN Ocean Treaty: ‘A Step Forward, but Achieving Action will be the Real Test’
Many countries fail to protect, or even actively exploit, their coastal marine reserves – how will new initiatives be different?
‘Courts of Conscience and the Climate Emergency’
Tom Hardy explores the role of the judiciary in combatting the climate emergency as activists are prohibited from mentioning the issue in their defence in court
Aviation Growth and Decarbonisation: A Circle You Can’t Square
A new report casts further doubt over the Government's Jet Zero strategy and its inherent contradictions, reports Andrew Taylor-Dawson
UK’s Biggest Polluter Doubles Profits while Raking In Hundreds of Millions in Government Subsidies
The UK gives more to bioenergy firms than any other country in the world, reports Rachel Donald
‘Young People are Being Let Down by Politics on the Climate Crisis’
The climate crisis is at the top of young people's agenda but political parties are failing to meet their concerns. Is electoral reform the only hope of change?
Putin's Energy Attack: Surviving a Warm Winter Battle is Not Winning the War
Though gas prices have fallen they are expected to rise again this Summer, so Europe can waste no more time diversifying its energy market, says Mark Temnycky
Preparing UK’s Homes for Extreme Weather ‘Chronically Under-Funded’, New Report Finds
Adaptation to the effects of climate change remains 'overlooked', according to a new report by the Government's independent advisory body on tackling the issue
Hundreds of ‘Toxic’ North Sea Oil Spills Since 2019
Sam Bright reports on the scale of pollution being pumped into the North Sea
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