Is a proposed ban on new off-grid oil boilers really about to become a 'rural ULEZ'?

Michael Holder
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Ministers are facing fresh calls to delay new rules to end the sale of off grid oil boilers, prompting warnings from green policy experts that government is failing to do enough to support the UK's heat pump roll out

Could the government's roll back of green policies be about to extend to the 1.7 million UK households that use off-grid fossil fuel heating systems to heat their homes? Back in 2021, the government...

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