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A GROUP of council leaders and Mayors are calling on Government to abandon proposed restrictions on their ability to cut carbon emissions from house building in a letter to the Secretary of State at Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council leaders and Mayors from different political parties are calling on Government to abandon proposed restrictions on their ability...

DRIVERS across the UK could soon be filling up their cars with a greener, lower emission fuel, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced. The government is consulting on plans for E10, a lower carbon fuel made with up to 10% ethanol, to become the standard grade of petrol at UK filling stations from next year. By increasing the ethanol content of petrol,...

AN AMBITIOUS plan to halve Manchester City Council's greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 will go before councillors for approval this month. The Climate Change Action Plan 2020-25 sets out the measures the Council will take to reduce the carbon emissions from its buildings, energy use and transport from around 30,000 tonnes a year in 2019/20 to around 15,000 tonnes a...

OFGEM has issued final orders to five suppliers, which ban them from taking on new customers until they become Data Communications Company users. The five suppliers are Daligas Limited, Enstroga Ltd, Entice Energy Supply Limited, Euston Energy Ltd (trading as Northumbria Energy), and Symbio Energy Limited. The Data Communications Company is responsible for the national infrastructure that enables communications between smart...

HIGHWAYS England has delivered a £10 million boost to cycle ways across the East of England in the last five years in a bid to encourage more people onto their bikes. As a part of Highways England’s Cycle, Safety and Integration Designated Funds programme, 19 cycling schemes have been constructed in the region since 2015 while a further 11 are...

Northumbrian Water Group is one of only four UK companies to be named in this year’s World’s Most Ethical Company® list. The list gives global recognition from the Ethisphere Institute, a leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. According to Ethisphere, companies have illustrated their 'driving force for improving communities, building capable and empowered work forces and...

THE NUMBER of journeys being made by public transport in Scotland has fallen from 525 million to 517 million over the past year, according to the Scottish Transport Statistics' published earlier this week. The statistics show that bus journeys, which accounted for 73% of all public transport journeys, or 380 million passenger journeys, fell by 2% between 2017 and 2018...

AMBITIOUS plans to achieve net zero carbon emissions in the water industry over the next decade took a significant step forward today. The water industry is the first sector in the UK to commit to net zero carbon emissions by 2030, and two international consultancies – Ricardo and Mott MacDonald – will today set out how it can be achieved. At a major...

SCOTLAND will be the first country in the UK to legislate on the development of heat networks to help meet climate change targets and tackle fuel poverty. The Heat Networks (Scotland) Bill will introduce regulation and a licensing system for district and communal heating to accelerate use of the networks across Scotland. Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands, Paul Wheelhouse,...

THIS week Severn Trent has outlined a range of plans to help sustainability, customers and communities across the Midlands. The £1.2bn plans will see the company commit to a range of pledges and schemes designed to reduce emissions, improve the environment and support customers. The commitments include: Boosting biodiversity in 5,000 hectares of land – roughly equivalent to half of Coventry,...