Conservatives pledge to stop UK fossil-fuel subsidies

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Scale of support to carbon-intensive industries is "scandalous", say Tories

The government has provided almost three-quarters of a billion pounds in subsidies to fossil-fuel burning power stations over the past 13 years, according to figures highlighted today by the Conservatives....

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