Legislation

Fallout highlights problems facing negotiators for a post-Kyoto climate deal in Copenhagen this year

Yvo de Boer says industrialised country's targets are not strong enough

Addition will allow drilling up to 45 miles from Florida coast

Official announces threefold rise in targets for installed capacity of both wind and solar by 2020

US legislation will boost revenues

Moves to eradicate pollution by chlorine-producing plants

Scheme would be world's first nationwide smart grid project to cut 40 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually

Proposed seven per cent cut below 1990 levels by 2020 not enough, says Ban Ki-moon

Report finds utilities could lose half their earnings with cap-and-trade system

Government standards promise to cut vending machine energy use by 42 per cent, saving five million tonnes of CO2