The Chief Executive of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has strongly condemned a proposed wind farm development in West Yorkshire, accusing plans for the scheme of being “poorly thought through and technicall...

The chairman of Great British Energy (GBE) has said the phrase ‘net zero’ should be “scrapped” as he called for major change in the language around decarbonisation and green energy.

The chairman of Great British Energy (GBE) has said the phrase ‘net zero’ should be “scrapped” as he called for major change in the language around decarbonisation and green energy.

The CEO of Drax is making plans to meet with campaigners in the US amid claims the company's actions are negatively impacting the health of residents in a Mississippi town, The Yorkshire Post has been...

Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage have traded blows over Doncaster Sheffield Airport’s reopening plans, ahead of a bombshell council meeting which will decide its future.

Concerns have been raised since 2024 over the safety of critically ill children at a hospital in West Yorkshire.

Defence Secretary John Healey has said the “fast moving” situation in the Middle East is making the Government’s task of returning British Nationals “tougher”, after around 140,000 British Nationals r...

A COMPANY which handles hazardous waste in Leeds has received a string of official safety warnings – with concerns about the potential for “toxic fumes” being generated in the event of a fire, The Yo...

Yorkshire firm Tissue Regenix has announced that it is set to undertake an investigation into the circumstances which led to it being on the brink of collapse late last year.

A Yorkshire company has warned that it will go out of business unless it can raise extra money by the end of November, after it last month discovered "financial inaccuracies" in its latest results.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves appears set to press ahead with changes to cash ISA limits in next month's Budget, as she insisted that new rules are needed to get UK savers better returns on their investmen...

Climate Minister Katie White has said there is still "incredible support” from the public on action against climate change, despite what she described as a “fracturing at the political level”.

Leeds City Council is today set to meet with tenants’ union ACORN as the group calls for a national ban on the use of bailiffs for council tax debt collection.

A GROUP of residents near one of Drax’s US wood pellet facilities have filed a lawsuit against Drax Biomass and its subsidiaries, alleging that the facility “unlawfully” released “massive amounts of t...

A now closed private school in Yorkshire paid for a series of staff parties in the months leading up to its collapse, a former teacher has told The Yorkshire Post, despite existing financial issues an...

Campaigners have warned that Drax could be about to face a “time of reckoning” in the US, as a major decision looms for one of the power station operator’s wood pellet production facilities.

A company seeking to build a new plastic recycling plant has come under scrutiny from regulators, with claims the firm has failed to tackle an ongoing fire risk at its proposed development site.

North Yorkshire power station operator Drax has announced that it has now appointed an external auditor, following an Ofgem investigation last year which led to the firm paying out £25m for “misreport...

Two private schools in Yorkshire which closed down this year had suffered years of financial problems prior to the removal of VAT exemptions, and owed a combined total of just under £6m when they coll...

Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, has said that the transition to clean energy offers the “best chance in decades” to create new, well-paid jobs in South Yorkshire.

Researchers from Yorkshire have warned of the potential health impacts from wildfires after identifying pollutants from the Langdale Moor fire as far away as Leeds.

For a long time, logic has dictated that the shift towards green energy was inevitable. As global temperatures rise, and fossil fuels become ever more depleted, sensible minds could only conclude that...

The US backing away from investment in green energy could present a major opportunity for the UK, according to the UK’s Low Carbon Business Ambassador.

Energy firm SSE has said it is “unlikely” to reach its 2030 renewable energy generation target as the company announced that it was cutting its five-year investment expectations by £3bn.

As experts warn that climate change will cause wildfires to occur more frequently across the UK, those on the ground fighting them face extreme and dangerous conditions.

Leeds has seen a net gain of just 22 affordable homes over the last ten years, as over 5,000 homes in the city were purchased through the Right to Buy Scheme.

A director at North Yorkshire Council’s housing development company previously withdrew over £80,000 from a business prior to its collapse for he and his wife’s “personal benefit”, according to offici...

Anglo American, the firm behind Yorkshire’s Woodsmith mining project, has said that its recently announced plans for job cuts will not have an impact on workers at its Yorkshire scheme.

A pioneering Yorkshire carbon capture company backed by Drax, bp and the Government has made almost all of its staff redundant as a new owner is sought for the business, The Yorkshire Post can reveal.

North Yorkshire power station operator Drax has said that it expects to commit less development investment into carbon capture until it has greater certainty on government regulation.

The CEO of Anglo American, the firm behind Yorkshire’s major Woodsmith mining project, has said that the company expects the scheme to “ramp up” again no earlier than 2027.

A Yorkshire Post investigation has uncovered a string of permit breaches relating to the handling of radioactive waste and materials at four Yorkshire hospitals.

The CEO of Yorkshire Water has defended the company’s choice to pay out director bonuses this year after criticism of her decision not to return a performance bonus worth over £300,000.

Yorkshire Water has been given the go-ahead to increase household bills by 41 per cent over the next five years, as water companies across England and Wales raise their prices.

Anglo American has sparked renewed hopes for the future of its North Yorkshire-based Woodsmith mine after entering into a five-year agreement to research polyhalite, the material set to be produced at...

Formed as mud and silt are washed onto the land by coastal tides, the UK’s saltmarshes are thought to store around five million tonnes of carbon.

Eon Next has agreed to pay out £14.5m in compensation after an investigation from energy regulator OFGEM found that almost 250,000 of the company’s customers were affected by an error on its billing s...