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Breaking: Bipartisan Energy Bill decarbonisation amendment tabled

08 February 2013 •

Yeo and Gardiner team up to put forward amendment demanding decarbonisation target is set next year

Conservative MP Tim Yeo and Labour's Barry Gardiner last night tabled an amendment to the Energy Bill that would require the government to introduce a decarbonisation target for the power sector by April...

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