Government floats proposals to phase out coal and oil heating from 2020s

Madeleine Cuff
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'We will not be heating our buildings in 2050 by setting fire to the same substances that people burned in the Victorian era' government predicts

The government has launched a Call for Evidence on its plans to phase out high-carbon fossil fuel heating systems, such as coal fires and oil burners, over the next decade. In a document released yesterday...

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