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- China to snub UK energy summit amid row over infrastructure projects 16 April 2025Exclusive: Absence of world’s biggest clean energy producer will be welcomed by US pushing oil and gas exportsChina is to snub a major UK summit on energy security next week, the Guardian has learned, amid a growing row over the country’s involvement in UK infrastructure projects.The US will send a senior White House official to […]Fiona Harvey Environment editor
- Rightwing media falsely blame Ed Miliband for UK steel crisis, experts say 14 April 2025Net zero and clean energy can actually help save the steel industry, experts point outEd Miliband and the UK’s net zero target are being falsely blamed for the UK’s steel crisis, experts have said.On Saturday, parliament passed a law containing emergency powers to gain control of the last remaining maker of mass-produced virgin steel in […]Helena Horton Environment reporter
- Octopus and its customers ask Treasury to back zonal electricity pricing 14 April 2025Supplier rallies small businesses as critics say overhaul would harm development of clean energy Octopus Energy has rallied thousands of its small business customers to back an overhaul of Great Britain’s electricity market.The largest energy supplier in Britain and more than 3,700 of its customers wrote to the Treasury last week calling for an immediate […]Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
- Do all wind turbines rotate in the same direction? If so, why? 13 April 2025The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsDo all wind turbines rotate in the same direction? If so, why? Rab Spence, by emailPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published […]
- Rightwing lobby group Advance says it makes ‘no apology’ for support given to anti-Greens groups 12 April 2025Spokesperson acknowledges supply of flyers, T-shirts and corflutes to ‘dozens of community groups’ seeking to defeat party’s candidatesElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or […]Ariel Bogle