Readers recommend: songs about scandal | Peter Kimpton
Sex, drugs, money, sport, politics or hypocrisy? Sift through your songs to craft a collection of controversy, exposing the wrongs that pretend to be rights It’s shocking! It’s upsetting, unacceptable, and immoral! Or is it? What makes a scandal scandalous? Scandal is always on the move. The more there is of it, the less there […]
Head of VW America says he feels personally deceived
Michael Horn, president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America is appearing before the House energy and commerce committee to discuss the company’s emissions-rigging scandal 5.56pm BST We will be ending our live blog here. Here is a quick summary of today’s hearing: 5.34pm BST Here are Grundler’s prepared remarks. As we reported yesterday: The […]
More than 140 people given key role in public inquiry into undercover police
The key players include the parents of Stephen Lawrence, grieving families, women deceived by undercover police, trade unions and a whistleblower At least 140 individuals will have a key role in the public inquiry into the undercover infiltration of political groups, and the total may rise. The list of individuals gives an indication of the […]
Google Safari View: walking with elephants in Kenya
Kenya’s Samburu national park has been mapped by Google Street View, raising awareness of the reserve’s efforts to protect the elephant population Google Street View has launched a map of Kenya’s Samburu national park, giving internet users the chance to get up close to the majestic elephants that live there. The project, created in partnership […]
It's not just divers and nature lovers that should be concerned by record coral bleaching
The third mass coral bleaching event in recorded history is underway, signalling a biodiversity disaster on an unprecedented scale It may come as a surprise to learn that we are in the middle of the third great coral bleaching event in human history. And scientists are calling it the severest yet. The last great bleaching […]
Donald Trump takes campaign against windfarms to UK supreme court
Republican presidential contender and golf course owner says planned turbines would be ‘monstrous’ blight on Aberdeenshire coastline Donald Trump, the US presidential contender who has electrified the republican right, has taken his campaign against windfarms to the UK’s supreme court. Despite losing at every stage in the Scottish courts, the billionaire property developer is funding […]
UK solar firms going bust – what consumers need to know
With Mark Group and Climate Energy going into administration this week, what does this mean for households in the process of solar installations? Two solar panel-installing businesses have gone bust this week – where does this leave anyone who has had a system installed? What’s happened? Continue reading… Source: Guardian Environment
Second solar firm in two days goes bust, blaming Tory policy
Climate Energy solar panel installation firm collapses putting over 100 jobs at risk, a day after 1,000 jobs were lost with the closure of Mark Group Climate Energy, a company specialising in installing solar panels and home insulation, has been forced into liquidation – the second such business in as many days to collapse blaming […]
Cars, aviation, steel … the stranded assets risk spreads far beyond fossil fuel firms | Andrew Simms
VW is paying the price of revelations that ‘clean diesel’ is as much a lie as ‘clean coal’ – in a low-carbon economy 100s of energy intensive industries will have to reinvent themselves or become similarly exposed Imagine you invested heavily in glam rock silver spandex clothing just as punk music happened. You’d suddenly be […]
Activists promise largest climate civil disobedience ever at Paris summit
Thousands expected to take part in ‘red line’ blockades of Paris climate summit, after two weeks of colourful protests that have been dubbed ‘the Climate Games’ Thousands of climate change campaigners have promised to blockade a major UN climate summit in Paris with what they say will be non-violent direct action on a scale Europe […]