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Climate scepticism blamed as Owen Paterson slashes spending on global warming

2014-01-26 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Owen Paterson has been accused of incredible complacency over climate change after new figures showed his department has slashed spending on helping Britain cope with global warming. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) will spend just 17.2m on domestic climate change initiatives this financial year, a 41 per cent decline on the previous 12 months, according to its response to a freedom of information request. The figures will fuel fears that the Environment Secretarys...

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UK Pig Industry Slashes Greenhouse Gas Emissions

2014-01-22 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

UK - Two years after the publication of the BPEX Roadmap, the reduction in climate change potential (carbon footprint) already achieved is beyond expectation, far exceeding the overall 2020 target.

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Switch to Natural Gas Slashes Power Plant Pollution

2014-01-10 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Climate: Natural gas plants emit a tiny fraction of the smog-causing gases and slightly more than half of the greenhouse gases emitted by their coal-burning counterparts, according to a soon-to-be published study. The assessment builds upon earlier reports that substituting natural gas for coal has sharply reduced air pollutants from power generation in the United States. "Since more and more of our electricity is coming from these cleaner power plants, emissions from the power sector are lower by 20,...

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United Kingdom: RWE slashes capacity at North Sea wind farm

2014-01-07 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: German utility RWE will reduce capacity at its planned Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the North Sea by up to half, it said on Monday, weeks after it scrapped another wind project in British waters. Triton Knoll's capacity is now expected to range between 600 and 900 megawatts (MW), instead of 1,200MW, RWE's renewable energy subsidiary Innogy said in a statement. Offshore wind farm developers have now largely finalised British site assessments and industry experts say that project capacity...

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