Budget 2013: As it happens
BusinessGreen offers instant reaction and analysis to the environmental and energy news from Chancellor George Osborne's latest budget
Snap verdict Osborne does not do green budgets, but this was dirtier than most. Delays to fuel duty, tax breaks for shale gas, and encouraging support for CCS were always on the cards, but nowhere...
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