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United Kingdom: Ed Davey promises to 'fight like tiger' against Tory attempts to cut green levy
2013-10-28 09:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat energy secretary, has promised to "fight like a tiger" against Conservative attempts to cut green levies on gas and electricity bills. The senior coalition minister said he would not let the Tories touch subsidies for renewable energy or the fuel poor, describing it as a "red line", and pledged to beat the target of getting 30 per cent of Britain's electricity from green sources by 2020. He spoke out after David Cameron said he wanted to roll back green charges...
LEED Green Building Program Remains Preferred Rating System for Use in Federal Buildings\n
2013-10-28 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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United Kingdom: Green taxes will ultimately cut our bills as well as saving energy
2013-10-27 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The collateral damage in the great energy debate is mounting by the day. As the party leaders scrabble to come up with something to say in response to public concern about bills, the costs so far include their reputations for sound economics, the investment plans of many businesses and, potentially, the transition to a low-carbon future. Never mind the grandchildren's planet: burn, baby, burn. As bills go up between 8.2% (SSE) and 10.4% (npower), there is no doubt about the pain. The average bill...
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United Kingdom: Lib Dems to resist Tory plans to cut green taxes
2013-10-27 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Liberal Democrats will resist Conservative plans to to cut green taxes that add to the public's energy bills, Danny Alexander has said. The chief secretary to the Treasury told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show that the taxes, which amount to about 4% of the average bill, are vital to Britain's long-term commitments to funding renewable sources of energy and are a fixed Liberal Democrat policy. His stance has signalled a hardening of the entrenched positions between the two coalition parties over...
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United Kingdom: Green tax goes to wrong homes, says think tank
2013-10-26 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The overwhelming majority of money raised from the Government's flagship "green tax" designed to help poor families cope with their heating bills is going to homes not classed as living in fuel poverty, research by a leading think tank revealed yesterday. Around 80 per cent of the total 540m budget raised from the Energy Company Obligation (Eco), one of the green levies under review by David Cameron, is being targeted at the wrong homes, the IPPR says. As a result, 1.3 million households, more...
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