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Policy Exchange publications, staff and policy concepts in the press.
Environment & Energy News
Policy Exchange’s ’Going Round in Circles’ report referenced in the Financial Times
The Financial Times has referenced Policy Exchange’s report ’Going Round in Circles: Developing a new approach to waste policy following Brexit’ in an article entitled ‘Recycling industry looks to claw best from Brexit’
VIDEO: The Rt. Hon. Greg Clark MP speaks at Policy Exchange’s Industrial Strategy conference
Watch The Rt. Hon. Greg Clark MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy deliver a speech and answer questions at Policy Exchange’s ‘Developing a Modern Industrial Strategy’ conference
Richard Howard in the Telegraph: ‘We need to build some new capacity – otherwise the lights will go out’
Richard Howard — Policy Exchange’s Head of Environment and Energy — comments on the issue of the need for new power plants
Press Coverage of Policy Exchange’s ‘Next Steps for the Carbon Price Floor’ report
Comments from the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph
Government ‘must do more to help vulnerable households this winter’
Together, a decade of loose public spending, fiscal stimulus and the aftermath of the financial crisis left Britain with the highest deficit in its post war history at 10.2% of GDP. Even half a decade later, that deficit is only half closed, and remains high internationally. Budgeting for Balance looks at the experience of fiscal consolidation so far, and how to approach the remainder of the task.
London Air Pollution Became a Major Issue in Its Mayoral Race
Time’s report on Air Pollution and the London mayoral election quotes Richard Howard, head of Policy Exchange’s Environment and Energy unit.
MPs: UK air pollution is a ‘public health emergency’
Richard Howard, head of Policy Exchange’s Environment and Energy unit, is quoted by the Guardian on a new report by MPs on measures to clean up air pollution.
Londoners would live a month longer with cleaner air’
The Evening Standard report on the Policy Exchange Environment and Energy Unit’s report “Up in the Air: How to solve London’s air quality crisis – Part 2”.
North Sea oil industry down but not out, insists lobby group
The Guardian discusses the North Sea oil industry with Richard Howard, Head of Environment & Energy at Policy Exchange.
Call for pollution tax on sales of new diesel cars in Britain
The Guardian cites Richard Howard’s, Policy Exchange’s Head of Environment and Energy, recommendations to put a £800 pollution tax on the sale of new diesel cars and reduce air pollution.
