The EU has approved the acquisition of a business unit of an oil and gas firm by a British garage and service station group. Intervias Group will purchase 1,176 Esso-branded service stations around Italy from Esso Italiana S.R.L, an ExxonMobil company. A long term fuel supply agreement will mean the fuel sold at the sites will continue to be made and branded […]

Royal Dutch Shell has temporarily shut down most units at its oil refinery in the Netherlands after a fire at an electricity switch station. No one was injured and the source of the blaze at the Pernis facility in Rotterdam, Europe’s largest oil refinery, has yet to be determined. The fire at the facility – […]

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has won approval from US regulators to sell its 2017 diesel vehicles following allegations about cheating emissions tests. It received a certificate of conformity from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a conditional executive order from the Air Resources Board (ARB) of the State of California. They permit the production and […]

Financial services firm JPMorgan Chase has announced it will source all of its energy needs from renewables by 2020. The company also plans to provide $200 billion (£152.4bn) in global clean financing up until 2025, in a move it claims is the largest commitment ever made by a financial institution. As part of the clean energy […]

A 2,000 kilometre electric vehicle (EV) superhighway has been announced in Queensland, Australia. The route, which will offer 18 free charging stations to all EV users within six months, will stretch from Cairns to Coolangatta and west to Toowoomba. It will recharge the average electric car within half an hour and will be completely free […]

EDF Energy has seen a fall in profits in the first six months of 2017 compared to the same period last year. It dipped to €627 million (£561m) before interest and tax – a 34.4% fall – mainly due to the “significant impact of lower nuclear prices”. The drop in energy usage from householders following […]

A German court has strengthened efforts to ban older diesel cars in the city of Stuttgart. The city’s administrative court reportedly ordered the state government to rework a proposed air quality plan, saying it wouldn’t bring improvements as fast as originally planned. Environmental group DUH took the city, home to vehicles manufacturers such as Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, to court following […]

The first half of 2017 saw Europe install 6.1GW of new wind energy capacity. That’s according to new figures released by industry organisation WindEurope, which put the renewable power source on course for a successful year across the continent. However, much of this investment and development was heavily concentrated in a relatively small number of […]

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A cricket team have joined force with Sky in an initiative to reduce the amount of single-use plastic used at the Oval cricket ground in London. The Kia Oval team and Sky Ocean Rescue have teamed up to cut plastic ahead of the ground’s upcoming 100th Test match by raising awareness of the issue of ocean health and asking cricket fans to […]