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£400m to be invested in UK plastic recycling facilities

Envirotec Magazine

A new partnership may pave the way for more than £400 million to be invested in recycling facilities across the UK. This will seemingly be the first of 10 new green, advanced recycling facilities that the two firms are jointly seeking to build and operate across the UK.

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Successful net zero fuel trials pave way for carbon-free cement

Business Green

Trials of a net zero fuel mix at a Lancashire cement manufacturing plant have successfully completed, industry confirms. A government funded net zero fuel trial at a cement plant in Lancashire has been successfully completed, the Mineral Products Association (MPA) announced late last week. MPA was awarded £3.2m

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Business Secretary Rejects Climate Denier’s Bid to Revive Fracking

DeSmogBlog

The UK government has rejected a petition by a climate science denier to overturn the country’s ban on fracking. . The news will come as a set-back to the campaign being waged by politicians, commentators and pressure groups to restart the controversial technology. Climate Denial Campaign.

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'Legal and environmental folly': Is a backlash already brewing over the government's fracking and deregulation drive?

Business Green

The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - also known as the Brexit Freedoms Bill - is designed to strike the remaining EU laws from the UK's statute book by 2023, which environmental groups have warned could impact as many as 570 retained laws that come under the remit of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

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Reports: UK seeking to define nuclear power as 'green' investment

Business Green

However, it would bring the UK into line with a similar decision by the EU Commission last year to define both nuclear and some gas power projects as ‘green' within its investment taxonomy.

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Reports: PM pushing for domestic insulation programme to succeed embattled Green Homes Grant

Business Green

Bloomberg reported on Friday that sources familiar to the matter said discussions are underway about a longer-term domestic insulation programme that would help make the UK's housing stock more energy efficient. The UK Green Building Council has estimated that for the UK to reach its legally-binding net zero goal by 2050, 1.8

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Pilot projects seek to tap private sector investment for nature restoration and resilience boost

Business Green

The funding from the £10m Natural Environment Impact Fund, which was announced in this year's Budget, is being allocated through a programme backed by Defra, the Environment Agency (EA), the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (EFF) and Triodos Bank UK. The four projects are using a range of approaches to attract private investment.