Subsidiary of electricity firm SSE signs ‘unique and novel’ employment and social housing deal with local councils
Ed Miliband seems happy to see the landscape blighted. We value townscape – everywhere else has to fend for itself
The energy secretary’s plans to install thousands of pylons in unspoiled rural areas is facing a huge backlash
Climate experts and ministers say burying electricity cables could cost 10 times more than pylons
Britain’s landscape is under threat from developers and rapacious corporations. But I have a solution – if the next PM will listen
New Radnor, Powys: I reject in the strongest terms the idea that we must choose between building renewables and keeping our most precious land
George Eustice says adapted kerosene boilers can run on ‘hydro-treated vegetable oil’ and cut emissions by 88%
Exclusive: Environment minister seeks to expand definition of prime farmland in drive for productivity
Guardian analysis finds 151 licences already granted threaten environmentally important spots
Exclusive: Government discussions ongoing to designate sites as nationally significant infrastructure projects
Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire: There was something monumental about these terracotta-coloured funnels, these magical vessels of rain-river-cloud
Richard Middleton, Robin Russell-Jones, Judith Wright, Tom Fyans, Richard Aldwinckle, John Nissen, and Mayer Hillman respond to the latest dire warnings from scientists and policymakers on biodiversity and climate changeEduardo...
Government admits process that allowed Pont Valley site to begin operating was flawed
More than 71,000 hectares of protected countryside in the south-east face risk of drilling
Donal Boyle says Historic England must preserve some of the country’s cooling towers; while David Smythe says there is no justification for fracking in the UKWe are in danger of losing a major feature of the late 20th-century...
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