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At midnight last Monday it was the end of an era as the UK’s last coal power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, stopped producing any electricity from burning coal – ending the country’s 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel. “It was a very welcome and major milestone in [...]

Reducing air pollution really is a matter of life and death, says Midlands green energy expert Ron Fox. He was commenting on a worldwide air quality study which showed improving our environment could add years to our lives. The Chinese government launched a war on pollution to clean up its [...]

Britain has taken a giant step forward in its green plans with the go-ahead for a £4.3 billion low-carbon electricity superhighway which will power two million homes with renewable energy from windfarms. Midlands energy expert Ron Fox was commenting after the energy regulator Ofgem approved the [...]

British cathedrals should follow the example of Ely which has cut its carbon emissions by 42 per cent in five years, says Midlands green energy expert Ron Fox. Ely in Cambridgeshire is only the third cathedral to receive the gold Eco Church Award from the Christian conservation charity, A Rocha [...]

New guidelines suggesting that doctors should warn their patients about the dangers of climate change is an interesting idea. Midlands green energy expert Ron Fox was commenting on advice by The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) that said medics should raise the topic regularly during [...]

With the end of the summer holidays, it may seem strange to say now is the time to plan ahead for winter. But Midlands green energy expert Ron Fox says September is the ideal month because it is far harder to install insulation when it is freezing and also energy prices are going up again […]

Most householders do not need to remove the spray foam in their roofs in order to sell their property, said Midlands green energy expert Ron Fox. “There has been a lot of mis-information recently with some claims that all properties with spray foam are un-mortgageable which are totally wrong [...]

With the August Bank holiday a few days away now is a good time to look back at three of this year’s amazing but true green stories. Ron Fox, of Noreus Ltd on the University of Keele Science Innovation Park, (www.noreus.co.uk), picks his favourite environmental tales in the last three months. [...]

Every story about climate change, global warming and the environment usually includes the phrase reaching ‘net zero’ by 2050. But what does that mean for governments, industry and the individual? Midlands green energy expert Ron Fox explained that the phrase means no longer adding to the total [...]

The government’s decision to put back the date for homes to switch from boilers to installing heat pumps to 2035 will give householders and businesses more time to plan for this new technology. It will also hopefully give the Labour cabinet an opportunity to make this move easier for residents [...]