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Credit Entergy / Nuclear Regulatory Commission Natural gas use is expected to increase in New York after the closure Friday of the state's largest nuclear plant. But it probably won’t trickle out to New England, according to a regional industry leader. New York and New England's power grids can share electricity with each other, depending on supply and demand. They use a similar fuel mix, with very little coal and oil and an increasing amount of wind and other renewables; New York is especially dependent on hydropower. But both regions run largely on gas and nuclear power, meaning that when...

7:12 The fight against fossil fuel expansion in New England has a new front in Killingly, Connecticut. Climate activists want the state to reject a proposed natural gas plant there, which is tied to the company behind a controversial pipeline development currently underway in Minnesota and a recently completed natural gas line in New England. Connecticut's activists say construction of new climate-warming infrastructure like this is out of step with the clean energy goals of most New England’s governors and President Joe Biden. This month, a group of climate activists went door-to-door to b...

CAMPAIGNERS have welcomed a Ministry of Defence (MoD) decision to drop plans to introduce a five-year limit on prosecutions for torture as part of a new law, but they warned that more changes are needed.  The MoD confirmed this week that torture, genocide and war crimes would be excluded from a “presumption against prosecution” of British soldiers proposed in the Overseas Operations Bill.  The concession follows months of campaigning by human-rights groups, which warned that such measures would amount to the “decriminalisation of torture,” and a House of Lords vote last week to ex...

Defence minister Johnny Mercer dismissed from government Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Johnny Mercer has been abruptly dismissed as a junior defence minister after accusing Boris Johnson of breaching a commitment to implement a controversial pledge to prevent veterans who served in Northern Ireland from being prosecuted. The junior minister was preparing to quit on Wednesday but his resignation was accepted by the chief whip early on Tuesday evening, eager to put a stop to speculation he was on the brink ...

Defence minister Johnny Mercer dismissed from government Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Johnny Mercer has been abruptly dismissed as a junior defence minister after accusing Boris Johnson of breaching a commitment to implement a controversial pledge to prevent veterans who served in Northern Ireland from being prosecuted. The junior minister was preparing to quit on Wednesday but his resignation was accepted by the chief whip early on Tuesday evening, eager to put a stop to speculation he was on the brink ...