This is a big deal. Matters for whoever forms the next govt, as well as this one

How Great Britain’s national grid ran virtually without fossil fuels for an hour, feat Simon Evans, Chris Stark & National Grid ESO

Story 👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-nat…

Meta, the owner of Facebook, has banned an advertiser that spent tens of thousands of pounds on climate change denial posts that were seen by more than a million people in Britain. Follows Global Witness investigation into Epoch Times London

Wet wet wet.

The UK has seen 96% of the rainfall it'd expect to see in spring

Normally it'd be 66% of average by the end of April

Met Office April summary

blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2024/05/01/a-w…

NEW

'Stitch up' for shellfish industry as sewage dumped in designated waters for 192,000 hours last year

news.sky.com/story/shellfis…

Six water companies have quietly released long-awaited maps of sewage spills but have been criticised after appearing to wait for the spell of heavy rain to end thetimes.co.uk/article/water-…

Stats out today show that there were 59,670 public electric vehicle charging devices in the UK by 1 April 2024, an increase of 49% since 1 April 2023 #EVcharging #ElectricVehicles ⚡🚘

Read the full report here: gov.uk/government/sta…

Interesting pitch from the UK's energy secretary, arguing businesses need to live with more uncertainty.

Every CEO I've ever met puts policy certainty at the top of their wishlist...

Air pollution stats out today

Good news
• PM2.5, PM10 and NO2 still trending downwards

Bad news
• ozone up (govt officials say possibly due to higher temps in recent years)
• other pollutant levels are still above WHO safe limits

gov.uk/government/sta…

However, the researchers said shrinking species numbers would be “strongly negative”, because it would hurt timber production, carbon storage and biodiversity.