BP boosts green credentials, no really

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Oil giant to acquire US biofuel operations in $98m deal

It is likely to take decades for BP to be regarded as anything other than the bête noire of US environmentalists, but the company yesterday took one small step towards rebuilding its battered green credentials,...

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