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Chemistry World August 2006 Mark Peplow	Editorial: Action Please, Not Reviews of Reviews Whether developing new materials for fuel cells, or contributing to the Council for Science and Technology's nano-review, chemists' voices in the UK must be heard by policy-makers. Given the current pause for further thought, now is the perfect time to chip in.
Chemistry World May 23, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	UK Government Reveals Energy Plans Scientists have cautiously welcomed the UK government's drive towards renewable energy and nuclear power.
Chemistry World February 2011	What proportion of the world's energy supply will be sustainable by 2020? Three experts from different fields provide insights into scientific and political problems that impact energy stability.
Chemistry World April 22, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	Darling budgets for high tech growth Alistair Darling, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave a speech which focused heavily on how he wants to produce a 'hi tech Britain that will lead our economic recovery'
Chemistry World April 12, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Nuclear Power to Save the Planet The UK's chief scientific adviser, David King, has reiterated his support for nuclear power. King supports the rebuilding of decommissioned nuclear power plants in the UK to reduce dependence on fossil fuels in the next 15 years.
Chemistry World January 10, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Green Light for UK Nuclear Power The UK government has formally announced its long-awaited decision to support a new generation of nuclear power stations. Scientists, while welcoming the government's decision, also warned that plenty of detailed decisions remained.
Chemistry World October 2007 Jeff Hardy	Mind the Gap The technology to plug the UK's energy gap is already here. But where is the political will?
Chemistry World July 8, 2008 Manisha Lalloo	UK Slows Introduction of Biofuels The UK has scaled back its plans to introduce biofuels after a government-commissioned report warned that too little is known about their wider social and environmental impacts.
Chemistry World February 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Calls for UK Investment in Carbon Capture The UK government must invest immediately in carbon capture and storage technologies to meet carbon emissions targets, a parliamentary committee has urged.
Chemistry World July 24, 2008 Victoria Gill	Go ahead for UK national nuclear lab The UK government has given the go-ahead to establishing a national nuclear laboratory (NNL), and launched a competition to find it a commercial operator.
Chemistry World August 18, 2010 Andy Extance	French plough money into green chemistry Green chemistry is one of five technologies set to benefit from a 1.35 billion ( 1.11 billion) cash injection over the next 4 years in France.
Chemistry World March 12, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Energy Focus as Small Firms Benefit From Darling's First Budget The UK government's 2008 budget sees small businesses and school science netting extra funding, and new environmental targets designed to boost renewable energy use.
Chemistry World October 2007 Mark Peplow	Chemistry's Big Question The way that we currently produce our energy -- for light, heat and transportation -- is clearly unsustainable. Chemistry really can save the world -- but scientists must be canny about selecting the most commercially realistic ways of achieving that.
Chemistry World September 23, 2010 Anna Lewcock	UK faces scientific exodus The UK faces a 'significant' risk of researchers abandoning its shores and long-term damage to the science base if proposed funding cuts go ahead
Chemistry World February 11, 2014 Emma Stoye	UK science to get long-term investment plan Following recent criticism for failing to make long-term plans for science, the UK government is now formulating a roadmap for its investment in research infrastructure.
Chemistry World February 13, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Storing up High Hopes for Hydrogen Economy Polymer scientists have joined the race to store hydrogen as fuel. Their breakthrough could help make the hydrogen economy a reality, they claim.
Chemistry World October 12, 2009 Sarah Houlton	EC pushes renewables research The European Commission has called for a dramatic increase in investment in low carbon technologies to address climate change and secure the future energy supply.
Chemistry World April 2010 Bibiana Campos Seijo	Editorial: Election science Science is very much on the agenda in the UK, with many a report being launched during the last month.
Chemistry World February 22, 2010 Anna Lewcock	Funding cuts will 'damage a generation' of science Cutting research budgets will harm science for an entire generation, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science said. The Royal Society of Chemistry, one of the many who have voiced their outrage at the cuts to UK science funding, shares this view.
Chemistry World January 14, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Flawed Policies Encourage Damaging Biofuels, Says Royal Society Simplistic policies are encouraging biofuels that don't cut greenhouse gases.
Chemistry World October 24, 2006 Victoria Gill	British Scholarship Scheme to Attract the World's Best Brains The Royal Society has developed an international fellowship scheme that aims to attract the world's best scientists to the UK and give the country a business edge.
Chemistry World March 6, 2012 Simon Perks	Special Treatment for Scientists Under Immigration Rules Scientists traveling to work in the UK will be exempt from rules on settling in the country.
Chemistry World June 2009 Lord Drayson	World-leading research In the current climate - not just the downturn, but the reality of intense global competition - UK research chemists must join forces with business and government to exploit our abundant talent and potential.
Chemistry World April 2007 Mark Peplow	Editorial: Swindled? The bottom line is that just a few degrees increase in global average temperatures is likely to have a severe impact on human life. The silver lining of anthropogenic climate change is that, being man-made, at least we stand a chance of doing something about it.
Chemistry World October 24, 2011 Patrick Walter	UK Government Pulls the Plug on CCS Plant Plans for the UK's first commercial scale carbon capture and storage power plant have been shelved.
Chemistry World November 23, 2012 Nuala Moran	Can the UK fund CCS? After several false dawns, two recent announcements suggest commercial-scale carbon capture and storage could finally be getting the go-ahead in the UK.
Chemistry World February 9, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Foreign Postgrad Vetting Proposals 'Absolutely Unnecessary' A controversial new scheme for vetting foreign postgraduate students wishing to study in the UK has been slammed as 'absolutely unnecessary, completely over-the-top and counter-productive' by a leading member of parliament.
Chemistry World April 22, 2013 Patrick Walter	RSC takes top UK business award The Royal Society of Chemistry has received the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise for achieving substantial growth in its overseas scientific publishing business.
Chemistry World August 8, 2008	Funding Carbon Capture As the UK inches towards a 2014 large-scale demonstration of carbon capture and storage, scientists and MPs are urging for more incentives to get the costly technology commercial by 2020.
Chemistry World May 2008 Mark Peplow	Editorial: Reap what you sow The biofuel backlash is in full swing. It's being driven by rising food prices; farming subsidies that look more suspicious by the day; and a general feeling that people have been conned.
Chemistry World August 16, 2011 Patrick Walter	Chemists Vent Anger at Funding Body in Letters to UK Government UK chemists are in open revolt over administrative interference in their field by the main grant funder.
Chemistry World April 23, 2013 Emma Stoye	Invest in research or be left behind, UK academies warn The UK's four national academies have called on the government to increase investment in research over the next decade or risk being overtaken by international competitors.
Chemistry World June 9, 2009 Sarah Houlton	New department takes responsibility for UK science The UK government reshuffle has reunited the departments responsible for business and science.
Chemistry World September 18, 2012 Laura Howes	Battery boost for electric cars The UK government, in collaboration with industry, is to create a new UK energy storage R&D center to accelerate the development of batteries for vehicles.
Chemistry World November 2, 2007 Victoria Gill	UK Nuclear Waste Disposal Plans Too Soon and Too Scanty UK scientists have urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to amend its plans to ask the public to volunteer to host an underground nuclear waste store.
Chemistry World November 10, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	BP quits carbon capture competition This leaves just three companies still bidding to build a government-backed CCS demonstration plant in the UK.
Chemistry World May 24, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	BP Pulls Out of Carbon Capture Plans Due to slow governmental support, BP has ditched plans to build the world's first carbon capture and storage power plant in Scotland.
Chemistry World June 2007 Mark Peplow	Editorial: Dear Gordon... A science-related message to the UK's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Chemistry World October 22, 2010 Akshat Rathi	UK carbon capture a one horse race On the same day UK ministers revealed a 1 billion fund for the development of carbon capture and storage, power company E.ON UK announced it is pulling out of the government's national CCS competition, leaving just one company in the race.
Chemistry World November 9, 2015 Emma Stoye	UK science's 'superpower' status at risk The UK government must commit to spend more on science R&D in the long-term if the UK is to remain a 'scientific superpower', according to a report published by the House of Commons
Chemistry World February 15, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	UK Nuclear Policy Setback UK government plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations have suffered a setback after a public consultation on nuclear power was condemned by a High Court judge as 'inadequate' and 'misleading'.
Chemistry World December 11, 2009 Anna Lewcock	Hundreds of millions to be slashed from UK science budget Money is being sucked out of the research pot
Chemistry World January 24, 2008 Arthur Rogers	EU Extends Emissions Trading Scheme to Petrochemicals Proposals for reform of the EU emissions trading system (ETS) will impact the chemicals sector by extending the system to nitrous oxide (N 2O) emissions.
Chemistry World March 14, 2013 Mark Peplow	Hydrogen's false economy Hydrogen will undoubtedly find transport niches, but talk of hydrogen powering a substantial proportion of the planet's billion cars (and counting) is driven more by techno-optimism than evidence.
Chemistry World May 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Cutting the Cost of Climate Change Scientists have welcomed a UN climate change report released on Friday that sets out a range of affordable options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Chemistry World October 2008 Ananyo Bhattacharya	Editorial: Physics envy UK government's former chief scientific adviser, surface chemist David King, questioned whether the hunt for the Higgs boson should be a priority for a planet facing potentially catastrophic climate change
Chemistry World September 8, 2010 Andrew Turley	Vince Cable: science cuts are coming Taxpayers should only back research that makes money or is academically exceptional, UK business secretary Vince Cable said today in his first speech on science.
Chemistry World October 2011	Waste not, want not Will filling your car with biofuel ever be sustainable? Matthew Aylott says that new technology is set to make this dream a reality
Chemistry World December 17, 2009 Andy Extance	STFC funding axe bodes ill for UK science The UK Science and Technology Facilities Council has announced a series of program cuts and priority shifts, indicating a direction for British research that some researchers have reacted angrily to.
Chemistry World May 23, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Carbon Trust cuts are 'small beer' The government-funded body charged with reducing the carbon footprint of UK businesses 'can surely do a lot better', according to a government report.