Coal industry joins calls for carbon price floor rethink

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Charge will devastate coal industry, trade body warns, following similar appeals by the CBI and EEF

Is the coal industry running scared of the carbon price floor? Hot on the heels of calls by the CBI and manufacturers' organisation EEF to freeze the controversial levy comes a report backed by CoalPro,...

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