Edie: Households in fuel poverty are not being given enough help to reduce their bills, Dr Boardman said Current policies to make low-carbon and more energy efficient homes risk leaving low income households out in the cold. That was the warning from Dr Brenda Boardman, a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute. Speaking at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on Wednesday, Dr Boardman said that people who were in fuel …