Energy & Environment

Climate sceptics were jubilant when Theresa May announced the end of a dedicated climate change department. But, as Professor Sam Fankhauser of the Grantham Research Institute argues, bringing together the teams working to cut carbon with those drawing up industrial policy could be a smart move 

Martin Donnelly and Alex Chisholm leading the newly-created department as joint permanent secretaries

New report praises cross-government progress since 2010 but questions the value of Single Departmental Plans

The new prime minister Theresa May has triggered a major overhaul of Whitehall. CSW has full the details on what the merger of the energy and business departments will mean for staff and policy

The environment department’s top official calls on staff to confide in each other as a way of boosting morale in one of the government’s unhappiest departments

The former Energy and Climate Change chief scientist, who died earlier this year, taught his department how to do policymaking without the hot air – by making the process data-led, iterative and open

Microsoft looks at the digital infrastructure that allows cities to prosper

Energy secretary Amber Rudd leads tributes as former chief scientific advisor loses battle with stomach cancer

National Audit Office (NAO) report finds that each loan given out under the Department of Energy and Climate Change's Green Deal cost government £17,000, and flags poor use of evidence and testing when the scheme was designed 

Lovegrove to leave DECC after three years at the top, taking over from Jon Thompson at the MoD "shortly"

Public appointments watchdog Acoba approves former Defra perm sec's appointment to board of the Office for Nuclear Regulation

Regulator Ofgem’s energy markets inquiry lead Rachel Fletcher appointed for seven-year term