US green energy braces for federal funding cuts

Zoe Corbyn Technology Reporter Reporting fromSan Francisco Getty Images President Trump has described windfarms as “disgusting” and “ugly” US green fuel company HIF Global has a big vision for Texas’s Matagorda County: a $7bn (£5.2bn) commercial scale e-methanol factory to supply the world market. The plant, which it claims would be the largest to date…

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Rule-breaking ministers to lose exit pay-outs

Becky Morton Political reporter Getty Images Ministers who leave office following a “serious breach” of ministerial rules will be stopped from getting pay-outs from October. The move is part of a package of measures the government says will drive up standards in politics. Meanwhile, former ministers who take up a job which breaches post-government employment…

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