Prime Minister pledges to halve new building energy use by 2030

Michael Holder
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Theresa May unveils target to halve energy usage of new buildings by 2030 as she talks up plans to place UK at forefront of global scientific research and technological development

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has today pledged to halve energy usage from new buildings by 2030, in a speech which saw her herald clean growth and the response to climate change as "one of the greatest...

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