To end recrimination between Halliburton and BP over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it has been ruled that the former should pay out US$1.1 billion in reparations including court charges, a relatively small amount compared to the damage the spill caused.

The public accounts committee has questioned the value of the government’s proposed smart meter rollout.

Fearing shortages as power stations face closure and repair, the National Grid has launched a tender asking power providers for spare electricity for the busy winter period.

The UK government believes that a global climate deal brokered in Paris 2015 would make tackling climate change “much easier”.

Indian leader Narendra Modi has chosen not to attend Ban Ki Moon's UN Climate summit in New York this month. Now Chinese leader Xi Jinping has followed suit.

UK Environmental bodies have grouped together to lobby political parties for the upcoming general election.

Daily Mail readers have kicked off an unnecessary appliance buying rush as they are told certain vacuum cleaner motors have been banned in a new EU directive.

Tesla’s lithium-ion ‘Gigafactory’ will be built in Nevada, company officials including chief executive Elon Musk confirmed at a press conference yesterday afternoon.

The British Advertising Standards Authority have clamped down on Breitling Energy's pro-fracking advert, as it misleads readers with unfounded claims of the financial and political benefits of shale gas drilling.

A coalition of UK trade unions have called on the Labour Party to build “an ambitious domestic energy efficiency programme” in order to help create jobs, cut bills and slash carbon emissions.