By Dan Peters A HOUSING Association has called for “considerable changes” to the Government’s Green Deal to ensure it helps some of its poorest tenants. Riversmead Housing Association, which is based in Ware Road, Hertford, said it was concerned that current proposals due to come into effect in October would prohibit it and its tenants […]

ATTLEBOROUGH: A merchant’s view of the Government’s Green Deal was the focus of a constituency visit toRidgeons in Attleborough by George Freeman MP. Mr Freeman went to the branch as the guest of managing director, Angela Rushforth. Welcoming him was branch manager, Mike Fields, who toured the 6-acre site with Mr Freeman to show him the […]

With the global climate crisis growing ever more urgent, the sharp rise in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010 is deeply worrying – and raises serious questions about the progress being made in our energy and climate change policy (Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions in shock 3.1% rise, 8 February). The rise in emissions from home heating is […]

Green policy news – by Louise Bateman 9th February 2012 The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has dropped controversial plans to link eligibility for the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) for solar electricity with a requirement for properties to have Green Deal measures in place, but has today set out proposals that could see further […]