Royal Dutch Shell provoked a furious backlash from campaigners yesterday when it announced plans to scale back its renewable energy business and focus purely on oil, gas and biofuels. Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive, said that Shell, the worldโs second-largest non-state-controlled oil company, was planning to drop all new investment in wind, solar and hydrogenย energy.
Industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drillingโs toxic liquid leftovers underground wasnโt safe.
As calls grow for the government to ban fossil fuel advertising, Lord Vaizey warns against stricter regulation.
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The Environmental Protection Agency threw out Coloradoโs entire haze reduction plan, in what critics called โillegalโ and a possible warning to other states not to close fossil fuel plants.
