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The government on Tuesday revealed the first nine electric vehicles that will be eligible for their purchasers to receive subsidies of up to 5,000 pounds under a plan to promote low-carbon transport.

Under the scheme, the government has pledged 43 million pounds until the end of March 2012 to help British motorists shift to low-carbon vehicles.

They will receive up to 5,000 pounds towards the purchase of a low-carbon car from January 2011 to the end of March 2012.

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Getting rid of the Sustainable Development Commission was a 'transparently vacuous' decision that exposes the Government's opposition to true sustainable development

The UK is in danger of going backwards on its sustainability record, warned MPs and former government advisor Jonathon Porritt, after its decision to scrap its independent watchdog, the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC).

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"The new Coalition Government has pledged to be the ‘greenest government ever’ and has committed to reduce carbon emissions across the central Government estate by 10% within 12 months. Launched at the end of May, our Central Government Carbon Management Service is already working with twenty one Central Government bodies to help them meet this challenge."

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Millions of householders will face a hosepipe ban from Friday, a utility company has confirmed.
United Utilities, which supplies water to north-west England, said the measure will help "safeguard essential supplies".
Water levels in many reservoirs and lakes have plummeted to less than half their capacity due to the region's driest start to the year since 1929.

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The Chancellor’s Emergency Budget failed to seize the opportunity to get the UK economy on a low carbon footing, according to business groups and green campaigners.
Chancellor George Osborne yesterday, delivered his first Budget since the Coalition Government took office. He announced big public spending cuts and tax rises to deal with Britain’s £156 billion deficit, including a rise in VAT and a 25 per cent cut across most Government departments over the next four years.

There was help for businesses through tax measures and incentives to try and ensure a private sector economic recovery, but the measures left a number of business groups and green campaigning groups disappointed at the lack of action on kick-starting a green economic recovery.

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The UK's most eminent engineers have warned that the biggest set of investments and social changes ever seen in peacetime are needed to meet the country's energy needs in the coming decades, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

The changes include a transformation of the nation's draughty homes and cuts in how far people commute to work, as well as a vast expansion of wind and solar power and dozens of new nuclear or "clean coal" power plants.

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The UK's carbon capture and storage (CCS) sector will be able to sustain 100,000 jobs by 2030 and generate up to £6.5bn a year, the government claimed today.

Unveiling a new strategy to encourage the growth of CCS, the energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, said it represents a "massive industrial growth opportunity".

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Government aim of making Britain a centre of green manufacturing win a major boost from plans that will create hundreds of jobs

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Man held in police station for eight hours after taking pictures of Christmas celebrations in Accrington

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Individuals and businesses in the UK who install wind turbines and solar panels on their homes will be able to claim cash back from April of this year.

The government unveiled its proposals for “feed-in tariffs” today. The tariffs will enable businesses to contribute electricity to the national grid and claim cash for doing so.

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"BBC News photographer Jeff Overs was stopped and questioned for taking photographs in Westminster.

Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, for which he takes photographs, Mr Overs said he was worried that policing against terrorism was making the UK feel like "the Eastern Bloc". "

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Eleven G20 campaigners are being prosecuted for impersonating police officers despite some being half-dressed and wielding toy machineguns

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UK ranked amongst the worst polluters in Europe for airborne particles and nitrogen dioxide

Defra has come in for damning criticism for failing to tackle air pollution in a report published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS).

The UK has repeatedly failed to meet EU air pollution targets over past decade, according to the report. This is despite the estimated 24,000 people who die prematurely every year in Britain because of air pollution.

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Police today set up road blocks around a music festival site to keep thousands of environmental campaigners away from one of Britain's longest-running festivals.

Up to 15,000 people had begun to gather for the Big Green Gathering in the Mendip hills, Somerset, which was officially due to start on Wednesday. But organisers were forced to cancel it on legal advice yesterday after the police took out an injunction to prevent the festival going ahead.

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Two female protesters who challenged police officers for not displaying their badge numbers at Kingsnorth power station, Kent, were bundled to the ground, arrested and held in prison for four days last August, according to an official complaint lodged last month. Val Swain, 43, and Emily Apple, 33, both mothers with young children, said they were targeted because they campaign for Fit Watch which opposes police surveillance at demonstrations.

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Two men detained outside Vestas plant on Isle of Wight as owners erect fence around site in response to demonstration against its closure

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Cranes are nesting in The Fens for the first time in 400 years, wildlife experts believe.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) says young cranes have been seen at its Lakenheath Fen reserve near Brandon, Suffolk, during the past week.

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British authorities in Brazil said they were taking "immediate steps" after more than 1,400 tonnes of hazardous UK waste was reportedly found in three of the country's ports

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Seven of the UK's leading supermarkets – who are all British Retail Consortium members – have met a tough target to halve the number of bags handed out by the end of May 2009. Their customers used almost 420m fewer carrier bags in the UK this May, compared with the same month in 2006 – an amazing 48% reduction.

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