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Sweden backs 17 cleaner transport projects with SEK 73 million

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Sweden backs 17 cleaner transport projects with SEK 73 million

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From hugging Åkesson to borrowing his climate excuse

MP wants SEK 6bn restored for greener city travel

Social Democrats pledge free youth travel in jobs-and-climate plan

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Sweden wants ‘forever chemicals’ out of clothes, but farms can keep spraying them

Daniel Helldén and Amanda Lind: A Green Revolution

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Sweden vows to fight weaker EU carbon market

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Tanum Moderate criticises government's Vidar wind approval

Sweden proposes environmental penalties up to SEK 5 million

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Government approves three wind farms but rejects 11 offshore projects

Sweden removes coastal bans on potential nuclear sites

Sweden adds hedgehogs and eels to protected-species list

Sweden proposes landscape-scale measures to restore threatened habitats

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