Government threatened with legal action for 'throwing in the towel' on fuel poverty

Michael Holder
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Greenpeace claims government on course to miss its own targets as current policies would only lift six per cent of draughty homes out of fuel poverty by 2030

Greenpeace is threatening the government with legal action in response to expectations that legally-binding UK fuel poverty targets are unlikely to be achieved by the end of the decade. The environmental...

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