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David Cameron's proposals to roll back green taxes (Report, 28 October), which account for around 4% of an average energy bill, rather than tackling the underlying causes of rising prices and increasing fuel poverty, are...

The cost of nuclear energy has tripled in just five years, while the cost of renewable energy is falling fast, making the UK government's deal a truly terrible oneEnergy efficiency is cheapest and the cost of renewable energy...

The chancellor's plan to placate the belligerent power companies is to release them from some of their green obligations. But energy efficiency is the key to this debateLabour's price-freeze promise has finally goaded the...

Report's verdict is strongest blow yet to UK government's programme for energy efficiency in homesA cross-party committee of MPs has delivered the strongest blow yet to the green deal, the government's flagship programme...

Every argument the chancellor musters for his other economic policies apply doubly to the environmental sector, yet he remorselessly trashes itIn 2007, George Osborne said this: "Rather than green policies stifling economic...

The pledge to abandon the flagship energy efficiency scheme follows Ed Miliband's dramatic promise to freeze energy billsLabour is to scrap the government's flagship energy efficiency scheme if it wins the 2015 election,...

The government's much-vaunted energy-saving scheme has been criticised as overly complex and expensiveThe government has billed its Green Deal as "the most ambitious home improvement programme since the second world war",...

Scheme to transform energy efficiency of UK homes has been criticised as insufficiently attractive to householdsThe number of homes assessed for energy-saving measures under the government's flagship efficiency policy fell...

Five years after it was first proposed, the deal is relevant now more than ever. So why are politicians dragging their feet?What does a recovery look like? On current evidence it involves an increasingly divided workplace...

BusinessGreen: New government figures show first green deal plan has been completed, with a further 418 in the pipeline

Sending installers out to properties street by street is the latest stage of the green deal scheme to curb rising billsSquads of insulators and energy-efficiency experts are to be sent house to house around the UK, in the...

RWE npower says energy bills will rise £240 by 2020 due to green policies. Leo Hickman, with your help, investigates.

If householders are reluctant to embrace green deal improvements (Round table discussion, 1 July), it could be because dry-lining walls is a disruptive process...

Their challenge is to complete an expedition in that unknown territory, the future, with unfamiliar kit and no reliable mapIt turns out that the coalition government does, after all, have the desire to be the "greenest ever"...

Not a single home in the country has been modified to fully meet the energy efficiency plan as take up remains 'worryingly slow'Five months after its launch, not a single household in the UK has completed the process of making...