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'Economic injury': How the UK's electricity and transport networks could be racking up £264bn in hidden societal costs

Michael Holder

25 March 2021 • 6 min read

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Exclusive: Researchers have sought to calculate the external environmental, social and health costs of from fossil fuels, renewables, road transport and aviation

The additional environmental, social, and health costs that fossil fuels, road transport, aviation, and renewable electricity impose on UK society have been totted up in new analysis today, which estimates...

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