Climate Home: Shale gas production will break the UKs climate change targets unless there is stricter regulation now, according to the governments official advisers.
More action to cut carbon emissions in other areas would also be needed to cope with full-scale fracking, despite the government already struggling to meet existing commitments.
But the government says it will take no regulatory action in response to the report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), arguing that the current regime is...