Exclusive: Which? warns of Green Deal's "devastating impact" on efficiency efforts

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Green and consumer groups unite to call on Ed Davey to save the Green Deal or risk it “failing on all fronts”

Which?, WWF, and Greenpeace have issued the clearest warning to date that the government's Green Deal energy-efficiency initiative will "fail" without urgent reforms of the financing scheme. BusinessGreen...

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