News & Updates: FPA News
Our latest blogs, updates, events, and press releases.
Open Letter: Make Green Fair!
More than 50 organisations tackling poverty and the climate crisis have written to Ed Miliband and Jonathan Brearley demanding a guarantee that the transition to renewable energy will reduce bills
Stop July price hikes: Make Green Fair!
Just launched! More than 50 organisations tackling poverty and the climate crisis have written to Ed Miliband and Jonathan Brearley.
We’re demanding a guarantee that the transition to renewable energy will reduce bills.
Round up! AI: Keeping Bills High
From our internet search bars to military targeting software, AI is already everywhere. In this panel and discussion, we delved into the extensive plans to build data-centres. What means for our environment, climate change, and how to ensure that the interests of communities across the UK come first.
Drax’s great big biomass rip off sends our money up in smoke
Biomass drives pollution and hikes our bills… and yet the government piles money into it. Katy Brown from Biofuelwatch explains how you’re being ripped off.
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Round up! Mining, Militarism and Renewables.
We kicked off the new year with a session on renewable energy, mining, and the military.
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Causes for hope in 2026
Both in Britain and abroad, there’s clearly cause for concern. The rise of the far right, row back on green promises and politicians telling us to prepare for war.
But wins in 2025 tell us that their austerity agenda can be beaten, argues Stu Bretherton.
Round up! How to run the economy for people and planet.
Amal recaps our November Fuel For Thought educational session, which focuses on economic ideas.
With Nuri Syed-Corser leading the conversation on the super-rich, and global tax-justice in an age of UN Tax Convention. And Councillor Matthew Brown, on novel approaches and ideas to reverse decades of economic hardship in Preston.
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What happens next in the West Cumbria Coal Mine Saga?
Fiona Heslam discusses controversial West Cumbria coal mine plans, in a guest blog for FPA.
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Workers Planet: Building working-class power for climate justice
On 7th September 2025, Workers Planet brought together over 150 trade unionists, climate activists, and community organisers in Brighton to confront a shared challenge: how to ensure the climate transition works for the many, not the few.
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If we want to win the public over to renewables, we need to stop paying wind farms to turn off
Operators of wind farms are being paid to turn off their turbines at times of particularly high wind speeds – but that excess energy could be harnessed and even given to households for free, argues FPA member Frank Gavurin.
Make Them Pay, say FPA!
There’s plenty of money in Britain to guarantee all of our essential needs, including Energy For All. But that wealth is being hoarded by billionaires, and our politicians are letting them get away with it.
That’s why FPA members took to the streets of London on Saturday to join the Make Them Pay national demonstration
Round-up! Wind and Solar: The Global Transition
Amal recaps our July Fuel For Thought educational session, which focuses on the “transition” away from fossil fuels.
Even as alternative energy grows, the planet’s resources and people’s labour continue to be diverted to soaring profits and rising emissions. What could a fairer transition look like? Watch the full session here to learn more.
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