Confused? You will be after this week's story of the two DECCs

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Labour's Alan Whitehead argues that the battle over green policy at the heart of the coalition has created two DECCs

I think we will just have to get used to the existence of two Departments of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) over the next 18 months. There's one department that's basing its policy trajectory broadly...

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