But greens are split: Greenpeace, a big environmental pressure group which opposed sending the Clemenceau to India, supports scrapping the ship in Hartlepool instead.

ECONOMIST: Shipbreaking

Ministers planned to publish the bill last year, but when an environmental pressure group won a court case arguing that the government's consultation on nuclear power had been misleading, the bill was shelved and the consultation re-run.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear power: The wind, the sun—and the atom | The

In its ruling Wednesday, the Hague Civil Court rejected most of a landmark case brought by Nigerian farmers and environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth against Shell, saying the leaking pipelines were was caused by saboteurs, not Shell negligence.

NPR: Dutch Court Rejects Most Of Shell Spill Case

The move came in response to a Greenpeace initiative called the Unfriend Coal Campaign, in which the environmental group enlisted 700, 000 online activists to pressure Facebook to power its data centers with clean energy instead of coal.

FORBES: Facebook Commits to Green Energy -- But Can It Deliver?