Energy & Environment

Ensuring staff are equipped to deak with huge workload is also an 'anxiety', says Clare Moriarty 

Lord Deben is as intrepid and combative an advocate for the environment as anyone concerned about climate change could want. Better known as John Gummer, the former environment minister and now chair of the Committee on Climate Change tells Geoffrey Lyons why the UK’s current climate trajectory is worrying, and how it will be affected by Trump and Brexit.

Consultation analysis underscores weight of organised opposition to Cameron-era proposals ditched by May regime

The 2017 Commercial Award went to a team who supported "22 feisty local authorities" to reduce waste through innovative technology and collaborative working. Naomi Larsson finds out more

New digital services will help Defra protect against environmental hazards and improve communication, it said

Initial planning was “optimistic”, resulting in missed milestones, report finds

Quartet of unions calls on body’s board members to assert their independence and ignore Treasury guidance to limit pay rises to 1-1.5%.

Sources warn of danger that doubling charge to 10p ‘looks like profiteering'

Northern Ireland's attorney general John Larkin is seeking “authoritative guidance” on decisions that can be taken by officials in absence of ministers

Natural Resources Wales has had its accounts qualified three times over “unlawful” contracts with a sawmill

Prospect union says non-departmental public body should not be subject to Treasury guidance for government departments

NICS challenge over High Court ruling to overturn incinerator planning decision rejected by Court of Appeal