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Yes, the oil companies have profited from a perfect storm, but a windfall tax is not the answer – instead, the government should collaborate with these businesses to accelerate innovation and help the most vulnerable.

The Supreme Court ruled that councils must consider greenhouse gas emissions from oil combustion in planning decisions, making Surrey County Council's approval of an oil extraction project unlawful. This precedent could significantly impact future fossil fuel projects in the UK.

The winter package was finally formally published last Wednesday.The Package proposes significant changes to the Third Energy Package of 2009. The "winter package" of proposals has three main goals...

For a period this year, all of our lives became smaller.

On 21 July 2025, the UK ETS Authority (the "Authority") published its interim response to its May 2024 consultation (the "Consultation") on the expansion of the UK Emission Trading Scheme (the "UK ETS") to the waste sector (the "Interim Response").

Despite 2024's benign loss activity, fierce competition and capacity oversupply in upstream energy markets are driving down rates for high-quality risks. Insurers prioritize profitability as competitive pressures rise, while poor-performing lines face stagnant interest amid volatile broker pricing strategies.

The Guardian on Tuesday 30th March had an interesting article entitled "UK criticised for ignoring Paris climate goals in infrastructure decisions".

Monday (1 November) marked the first day of COP26, also known as the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference.

On December 18, 2024, the Advertising Standards Authority ("ASA"), the UK's regulator of advertising, issued a ruling against Lloyds Bank plc ("Lloyds") following a complaint by Adfree Cities...

The IPCC's Working Group II has issued its latest Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) publication – the 2022 AR6 Group II Report (the "Group II Report"). This report addresses climate change through the...

The primary focus on the risks associated with decommissioning is often on the complex offshore dismantling operations going wrong and the associated cost overruns which may result.

On 26 October 2023, the Energy Act 2023 (the Act), the largest piece of primary energy legislation in over a decade, received Royal Assent and became law.

Scotland has a lot to offer businesses and investors: a dynamic community of entrepreneurs, a highly skilled workforce, geography that could have been tailor-made for the clean energy industry...

This is entry number 217, published on 21 February 2011, of a blog on the Planning Act 2008 infrastructure planning and authorisation regime.

A recent Court of Appeal decision has addressed the question of liability for economic loss where the claimant is the beneficial owner of property damaged or destroyed due to negligence.

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, nuclear energy is experiencing a renaissance driven by AI's exponential growth and the urgent need for stable, low-carbon power. Small modular reactors (SMRs) are emerging...

The pound (GBP) was muted against most of its peers at the end of last week, as expectations for any meaningful tightening from the Bank of England (BoE) continued to fade.