The House Natural Resources Committee advanced a portion of the GOP budget package this week that would open vast swaths of public lands to private oil and gas extraction, logging, and coal and mineral mining while fast-tracking permits and slashing oversight of proposed fossil fuel projects. If signed into law, the bill would require the...
HEADLINES Exeter Energy plant replaces rationale for Grace Road Fields location near River Exe with reliance on air source heat pumps Developer nevertheless seeks planning permission to build in Riverside Valley Park, claiming public open space “not bound” by local plan policy, as scheme ambition and city council environmental leadership claims begin to drain away....
Devon County Council’s plan to postpone the May 2025 local elections has failed alongside its application to join the government’s fast-track devolution priority programme. Secretary of State Angela Rayner announced the decision in a House of Commons statement today. County council leader James McInnes wrote to the government to apply to join the fast-track devolution...