Environment Agency staff extend strike mandate over pay dispute
04 May 2023 Energy & Environment
Environment Agency staff extend strike mandate over pay dispute
Prospect urges ministers to let agency leaders "meaningfully negotiate with unions on pay"
Government emissions fall 35% in five years
21 Apr 2023 Energy & Environment
Government emissions fall 35% in five years
But State of the Estate report finds failure to meet target to cut amount of waste generated
Energy-security plan dubbed ‘Groundhog Day of reannouncements’
31 Mar 2023 Energy & Environment
Energy-security plan dubbed ‘Groundhog Day of reannouncements’
Critics accuse Shapps of recycling old policies and failing to fund new infrastructure and skills
PCS members to begin new industrial action in Defra and agencies
27 Mar 2023 Energy & Environment
PCS members to begin new industrial action in Defra and agencies
Union announces that members in the Forestry Commission England, Marine Management Organisation, and Rural Payments Agency will join core Defra staff in action short of strike from 11 April
Departments ‘back net-zero objectives', Pocklington tells MPs
27 Mar 2023 Energy & Environment
Departments ‘back net-zero objectives', Pocklington tells MPs
But energy security department perm sec acknowledges that decarbonising power sector by 2035 will be “very challenging”
Environment Agency names Treasury DG as chief exec
17 Mar 2023 Energy & Environment
Environment Agency names Treasury DG as chief exec
Philip Duffy will succeed James Bevan at Horizon House from July
Departmental delays ‘put government’s net-zero plans at risk’
02 Mar 2023 Energy & Environment
Departmental delays ‘put government’s net-zero plans at risk’
National Audit Office says lack of a delivery strategy for clean electricity could spook investors and ramp up costs
'There will be a job for everyone,' Sarah Munby reassures civil servants as BEIS splits Exclusive
07 Feb 2023 Energy & Environment
'There will be a job for everyone,' Sarah Munby reassures civil servants as BEIS splits
Simon Case acknowledges staff are "unsettled" as perm sec says she "didn’t expect" today's announcement
Pocklington to lead new energy department in perm secs reshuffle
07 Feb 2023 Energy & Environment
Pocklington to lead new energy department in perm secs reshuffle
BEIS perm sec Sarah Munby moves to new science department, while Sarah Healey moves from DCMS to DLUHC
Sunak breaks up BEIS and ‘refocuses’ DCMS
07 Feb 2023 Energy & Environment
Sunak breaks up BEIS and ‘refocuses’ DCMS
Machinery of government change creates new departments for energy; business and trade; and science, innovation and technology
'No other option': Thousands of Environment Agency staff to strike this week
06 Feb 2023 Energy & Environment
'No other option': Thousands of Environment Agency staff to strike this week
Unions Prospect and Unison join forces in dispute over low pay and understaffing
Government's ‘top down-approach’ to net zero 'holding back progress'
02 Feb 2023 Energy & Environment
Government's ‘top down-approach’ to net zero 'holding back progress'
Government needs to give mayoral authorities powers to deliver net zero goals, think tank says