BusinessGreen: The government avoided a House of Lords rebellion last night as peers voted by 216 to 202 to defeat an amendment to the Energy Bill that would have required it to introduce a decarbonisation target for the power sector next year.
Green businesses and campaigners had hoped that the amendment, put forward by cross-bench peers Lord Stern and Lord Oxburgh and Labour shadow climate minister Baroness Worthington, could pass with a relatively small rebellion from the government benches.
But despite...