All news on the topic: Carbon tax

The Conservatives have pledged to completely eliminate the carbon tax if they return to power.

State-owned Romanian energy firm Complexul Energetic Oltenia SA has declared much lower-than-average carbon dioxide emissions figures despite burning heavily-polluting low-grade coal, raising questions of whether it has skirted hundreds of millions in EU carbon taxes.

Emissions trading was supposed to save the planet. But fraudsters quickly learned how to rip the system off, making themselves spectacularly rich. Then some of the major players started turning on each other