E.ON joins business call to protect efficiency schemes from "green levy" cuts

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More than 40 businesses and trade bodies, including E.ON, Carillion and Travis Perkins, will today warn the Prime Minister that his plans to roll back green regulations could have the "perverse effect"...

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