The UK government has rejected calls from Conservative lawmakers to cut green levies and other taxes to ease the pressure on British households amid soaring energy prices. Households are expected to see a steep rise in energy costs in April as suppliers are due to increase prices after the cost of gas in wholesale markets rose by more than 500 percent in less than a year. In a letter published in The Sunday Telegraph, the lawmakers from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, argued that the cost of the UK government’s climate policy was partly to blame for the rising energy costs. The letter urged the government to remove the environmental levies on domestic energy, which it said amount to 23 percent of electricity bills, and to cut VAT on energy bills, which will mean a 5 percent reduction in energy prices. But Downing Street on …