Gas

More than 90 new licenses for onshore oil and gas exploration released today as ministers seek to inject fresh optimism into UK fracking industry

Green groups welcome plan from Energy and Climate Change Secretary to close coal power plants that fail to install carbon capture technology within a decade

New report claims UK is spending £6bn a year to prop up its fossil fuel industry

Labour's Alan Whitehead warns that if the government does pursue a new gas-centric strategy it will only lead to more energy subsidies

Committee on Climate Change calls for policy clarity as new report outlines low-cost strategy for decarbonising the power sector

Shell, BP, Total and Statoil among 10 fossil fuel majors pledging to step up environmental action, but green groups remain sceptical

New Policy Connect report calls on government to extend key scheme through to 2020 and deliver a long-term strategy for decarbonising the heat sector

However a split may be emerging in oil industry on whether to support government intervention

Mass data release reveals UK councils have invested £14bn of pension funds into fossil fuels

Industry-backed group concludes development of UK shale gas reserves is compatible with climate targets, but only if it acts as 'bridge to a low carbon future'