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Ed Miliband will lobby to remove aviation from renewable energy targets in his first test as the secretary of state for Energy and Climate Change By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Mr Miliband vowed to be ambitious on targets to tackle climate change Photo: GETTY IMAGES A meeting of European energy ministers in Brussels is due to discuss the EU's target to generate 20 per cent of all energy from renewable sources. The issue has been the subject of some controversy after it was leaked that the UK wanted to remove aviation from the target. The government are concerned it would ground the aviation industry but this had led to accusations of "wrecking" plans to tackle climate change. Environmentalists had hoped that Mr Miliband's new department would signal a break from John Hutton's old department of Business Enterprise... [read full story]
