WASHINGTON, April 22 (UPI) -- The European Union, gazing hungrily at Central Asia's vast oil and natural gas deposits, has long sought to weaken Russia's grip over Caspian exports. Now the EU has succeeded in getting its nose under the Turkmen tent, and in Moscow Gazprom Chief Executive Officer Alexei Miller must be drowning his sorrows, as Russia provides about 40 percent of the EU's natural gas imports.

LONDON, March 28 (UPI) -- British Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said the country may meet its Kyoto goals.

LONDON, March 21 (UPI) -- Britain said it will remain the world's leading donor to the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership.

LONDON, March 12 (UPI) -- Every home in Britain will have an intelligent energy meter under current plans.

LONDON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- British plans to build 20,000 wind turbines could create 200,000 jobs, a new study says.

LONDON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Britain sided with the United States Tuesday on environment-related tariffs the European Union wants to impose on U.S. products.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Following the 1991 collapse of communism, the United States was Azerbaijan's largest single foreign investor, but Britain is rapidly expanding its role there and in 2006 overtook the United States as Baku's leading investor.

Britain to buy more Gazprom gas; Kazakh Parliament OK's venture at Orenburg; Russian, Hungarian firms discuss energy venture

ASHBAGAT, Turkmenistan, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- British Minister of State for Energy Malcolm Wicks discussed with Turkmenistan the prospects of a southern gas corridor that bypasses Russia.