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A politician known for promoting climate science denial teamed up with a controversial mining company to lobby the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to drop a proposed ban on the use of coal in England’s households, newly released documents show.
Sammy Wilson, a Northern Irish MP for East Antrim and Brexit spokesperson for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and Northumbrian mining company Banks Group, met DEFRA minister Therese Coffey in June 2019. The DUP signed a supply and confidence agreement to prop up Theresa May’s government in March 2019.
