Doug Parr

Lobbyists send legal threats to councils over anti-wood burner campaigns At least eight councils receive legal threats alleging flyers criticising wood burners are in breach of advertising codes

Lobbyists for the UK wood-burning stove industry have threatened councils with legal action over public information campaigns warning of the harms of air pollution from the stoves

"straight from the playbook of tobacco" say @mumsforlungs.bsky.social

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If it’s true Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick told a business audience last night that renewable companies are "screwed" if Reform get in, it tells you everything about their readiness to inflict national self-harm in pursuit of ideological war on climate action.

Worth noting that despite frothing at the mouth of various right-wing media outlets in UK, the decision by Ed Miliband to go ahead with over 8GW of offshore wind in the recent renewables auction now looks a sensible bet

One of few ways UK can reduce economic risk from instability in Middle East

Maritime and ports businesses push for global shipping climate deal Almost 90 international groups back ‘certainty’ on carbon levy opposed by US

Maritime groups, ship owners, port operators & logistics companies urge govts to push ahead with global shipping climate deal

It's the one USA used 'bully-boy' tactics to derail last yr

Business is not with US administration on this - USA is being ideological. And wrong

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See also diluting the electric vehicle mandates. Smart move guys. Keep your entire transport system dependent for longer on oil from unstable regimes

Markets latest: Gas price soars 93% since start of conflict Drone strikes across the Middle East and Iran's effective closure of a key shipping route are spooking investors and traders. Follow the latest on the global markets.

This is a good moment for Europe & UK to remember that they can stick up wind and solar, insulates houses, far quicker than they can find new gas in e.g. North Sea

If you're chasing more gas, it's now a case of which unreliable regime you prefer to depend on

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UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced

BREAKING: UK to cut international finance on climate & nature

Seemingly under cover of the war on Iran, out comes some bad news

Reminder that govt were warned last year by UK’s spy chiefs that collapse of ecosystems could seriously impact national security

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quite possibly

Why has the world's first hydrogen double-decker fleet failed? The multi-million pound project in Aberdeen was meant to be the future of clean public transportation.

QTWTAI...it was a crap idea and always was. Electricity is so much more efficient than hydrogen. It's where buses are headed globally

"If you look at the commercial and technical framework around hydrogen buses, they just don't work'.. It was a house built on sand"

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The EU’s climate retreat problem: punishing early movers Green transition pioneers complain they are paying price for rewarding industry laggards

Rollback risk

The EU's retreat from climate action means some companies are - quite rightly - kicking off about investments made in good faith on the back of climate policy

"those very policies are precisely the ones that can attract new investment and create jobs"

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Spain’s Moeve bucks green hydrogen gloom with €1bn project Group backed by Mubadala and Carlyle to build new plant in Andalusia in boost to beleaguered industry

Spanish company Moeve takes final investment decision on 300MW electrolyser for green hydrogen project in southern Spain

Abundant wind & solar make hydrogen production there relatively cheap

First production 2029. Ambition is to enlarge to 2GW electrolyser capacity

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Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows

“A 7.2% decline for every tenth of a degree per decade might sound small. But compounded over time, across entire ocean basins, it represents a staggering and deeply concerning loss of marine life.”

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Warning as study finds 800,000 more UK homes at high risk of flooding Stark findings expose impact of global warming on British households

These projections are for 2.4C temp rise, slightly less than what we're currently heading for

And assumes response from govt/local authorities in increasing flood defence spend

But even so, number of homes at high risk of flooding triples to 800k from now

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Reform mayor courted US oil and gas executive about fracking in UK Exclusive: Documents show Andrea Jenkyns asked how she could help firm after major gas find in Lincolnshire

If you want to know how Farage's Reform will govern if they take power after next UK election, see how they govern in local areas

Against poll preferences of locals, the Reform Mayor of Lincolnshire cultivates fracking companies to see if they can come & operate

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Is there going to be a datacentre NPS? Wasn't aware of that.
Where is it in process?

AI data centre surge would put UK’s climate change targets at risk MPs call for ‘national conversation’ on potential drawbacks of sharp rise in data centres, which would use more power than the UK uses at its peak

Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, has disclosed that 140 data centres want grid connections, requiring **50GW** of power capacity at peak

Britain’s peak demand on a recently was 45GW

Can this amount of energy be provided cleanly? Even if it can, is it worth it?

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America is becoming a petrostate The Trump administration’s energy policy will make the country sicker and poorer

There was an effort to eradicate black lung disease that 1/5 of veteran coal miners have

The Trump administration paused enforcement of the relevant standard

“The guy who says he’s a champion of coal miners literally doesn’t care whether they live or die”

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the next version of this power station has been contracted by UK govt for Sizewell in East Anglia

And for that project all the risks of cockups like this will sit with the consumer and not the builder, EDF

So you do wonder what HMG have been smoking to think it was a good idea

EDF pushes back Hinkley Point C start-up by another year Delays raise bill for flagship UK nuclear project to almost £49bn at today’s prices

The world is turning upside down with tariff wars and Epstein revelations

It’s reassuring to see normality in some places

Like the news that Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is going to be even more over time & over budget

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@rogerprotz.bsky.social do pls follow, I'd like to DM - thanks!!

Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds Report says common agricultural policy provides ‘unfair’ levels of support to unhealthy, meat-heavy diets

“It’s scandalous that billions of euros of EU taxpayer money is being used to prop up a high-emissions industry at a time when scientists are telling us that we need – on health & environmental grounds – to shift to lower-meat diets”
say @foodrise.bsky.social

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British fruit and veg treated with ‘toxic’ pesticides Ten substances linked to medical issues including infertility are no longer allowed in the EU, but continue to be sprayed on UK crops

Since Brexit, UK pesticide policy has diverged from the EU allowing more toxic products to be sprayed on British food

@unearthednews.bsky.social have found (particularly) hormone-disrupting chemicals that will be used on potatoes, fruit & cereals

#BrexitBenefit

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These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity

"Trump is actively intervening against free market forces with taxpayer money to prop up the dirtiest form of fossil power

"This [is] self-indulgent, hedonistic nihilism by the world’s hegemonic power"

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The role of comorbidities in the associations between air pollution and Alzheimer’s disease: A national cohort study in the American Medicare population In a national cohort study of US Medicare beneficiaries, Deng and colleagues investigate the association between air pollution and Alzheimer's Disease.

couldn't find it covered elsewhere. Here's the paper journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

One in nine new homes in England built in areas of flood risk, study shows Figures from Aviva also show number of homes being built in risky areas is on the rise

UK has increased proportion of homes built in flood risk areas say insurer Aviva

By 2050, almost a third (30%) of homes built 2022-2024 will face some kind of flood risk, as more extreme rainfall is predicted as a result of climate breakdown

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Air pollution directly linked to Alzheimer’s risk, scientists say Particles from combustion of fossil fuels may damage brain health more than thought, research suggests

Analysis of 28 million US patient records shows fine particulate air pollution increases risk of Alzheimers Disease

Risk increases independently of other possible causes such as hypertension

Comes as Trump administration seeks to soften rules on this type of pollution

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Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate

Research didn't find single example where popular tools like Google’s Gemini or Microsoft’s Copilot lead to a “material, verifiable & substantial” reduction in climate emissions

Tech company claims of climate benefit conflates machine learning with generative AI

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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule – live Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

BREAKING: UK Government ban on Palestine Action unlawful, judges rule

An attempt to pretend that a direct action group were terrorists has failed

Kudos to those who have stood up for UK protest rights

Bad news for the many authoritarians in the UK govt

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Trump to Direct Pentagon to Buy Coal in Bid to Revive Industry President Donald Trump will unveil plans to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain US coal-fired power plants as he seeks to drive domestic reliance on the fossil fuel.

Trump to pollute more, produce electricity more expensively, cost taxpayers more in bid to shore up fossil fuel industry

The fossil industry were, of course, heavy donors to his election campaign

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