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LABOUR MPs launched a scathing attack on the Con-Dems’ so-called Green Deal yesterday and said it was nothing more than a “pack of cards which contains only jokers.”
The Green Deal was much trumpeted by the government as a way of helping people make energy-saving improvements to their homes.
But Labour MP Gerald Kaufman said: “Is it not a fact that the government’s institutional meddling with energy efficiency structures has not only wasted a huge amount of taxpayers’ money, it is actually making people on low incomes pay more?
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
Once again, working people have been betrayed with false promises about jobs in an industry that is actually making climate change worse, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER