UK oil and gas workers risk becoming the 'coal miners of our generation'

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The Grangemouth site / Credit: Ineos
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The Grangemouth site / Credit: Ineos

As the switch to cleaner technologies gathers pace, the need for a just transition has never been clearer

At the end of September, the UK's last remaining coal power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, will be retired. The closure of the plant should - and will - be celebrated by environmentalists,...

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