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Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor is an environment correspondent for the Guardian

July 2024

  • Carla Denyer smiles as she stands next to a polling station sign

    Greens to push Labour to ‘be braver’ on climate, sewage and cost of living

  • An oil platform in the North Sea

    North Sea oil decline: ‘We can’t have a repeat of what happened to 80s miners’

May 2024

  • Urban motorway rush hour traffic in Birmingham.

    Wealthy white men are UK’s biggest transport polluters, study finds

  • Climate protesters holding up banners reading 'green energy is cheap energy'

    UK ‘net zero’ project will produce 20m tonnes of carbon pollution, say experts

April 2024

  • Steam rising from cooling towers at Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland, with the rest of the site lit up brightly at night-time

    Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’

    Levy on oil and gas majors in richest countries would help worst-affected nations tackle climate crisis, says report
  • Sadiq Khan photographed outdoors with a blurred background of grass and trees; he is wearing a brown quilted anorak zipped up high under a dark blue jacket

    Sadiq Khan’s green credentials may be critical in London mayoral election

    As mayor aims to win third term, what has he achieved so far on air pollution, the climate crisis and nature?
  • Emma Thompson during a 2015 climate march in London.

    Emma Thompson and Greta Thunberg among critics of Shell’s Greenpeace case

    More than 30 public figures sign letter condemning $1m legal action

March 2024

  • A gas condensate platform, off the coast of Aberdeen, U.K., on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015.

    MPs and activists challenge claim North Sea oil and gas supports 200,000 jobs

  • A pilot flame burns atop a Shell refinery.

    Emissions connected to top oil and gas firms may cause millions of heat deaths by 2100, study finds

  • A mock cemetery outside Houses of Parliament with letters spelling out 'cold homes cost lives'

    Failure to insulate UK homes costing thousands of lives a year, says report

  • SOS Biscathorpe<br>Amanda Suddaby (with stick) and Mathilda Dennis from the campaign group SOS Biscathorpe who are campaigning against a proposed new oil drilling well in Biscathorpe, Lincolnshire Wold's Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

    Campaigners get go-ahead to challenge plans for oilfield in Lincolnshire Wolds

January 2024

  • tar sands

    Canadian tar sands pollution is up to 6,300% higher than reported, study finds

  • People stand behind a person holding a sign saying Stop Rosebank

    UK government admits Rosebank oil will not be kept in UK to boost energy security

December 2023

  • Stop Rosebank protest outside

    Climate groups begin legal actions against Rosebank North Sea oil project

  • Cambridge University students protesting in 2018 demanding the university divest its unethical investments in arms and fossil fuels

    More UK universities cutting ties with fossil fuel industry

  • Cop28 delegates pose for a photo at the conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

    Cop28: president says summit ‘has already made history’ as negotiations enter final days – as it happened

  • King Charles III and Rishi Sunak

    Cop28: Rishi Sunak says ‘climate politics is close to breaking point’ – as it happened

November 2023

  • About 10 police officers surround about 15 people marching along a street carrying orange 'Just Stop Oil' banners

    Actors and academics criticise UK over climate ‘madness’ and limits on protest

    Letter says government pushing ahead with new fossil fuel projects while criminalising activists who raise alarm
  • COP28 president, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, speaks during the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition October 2, 2023

    Capturing Cop28 chief’s oil firm emissions would take centuries – study

    Analysis deems technology promoted by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber ‘dangerous red herring’
  • Putting a log on a wood burner

    Wood burners more costly for heating than gas boilers, study finds

    Charity says research dispels myth that wood burning, which has health risks, is a cheaper energy option
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