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Treasury to publish report in 2020 setting out how costs of net-zero carbon emissions target should be distributed

MPs applaud departmental drive to secure longer-term funding to tackle poor maintenance

NAO finds £32.7m of public spending so far, but BEIS says full calculation of costs to back shale gas extraction would not yet be "meaningful"

Johnson will chair panel to spearhead cross-departmental approach on environmental protection

Requiring households to have up to six refuse bins will be expensive to deliver and tough to enforce, committee warns

Latest study also charts nosediving relations between government and parliament

Prospect members protest at imposition of rejected 1.3% pay offer

Public Accounts Committee says department lacks detailed implementation plan for delivering policy

After working on some of the first “green investment” schemes in the 1990s, Emma Howard Boyd has relished the chance to get closer to the action as chair of the Environment Agency. But, she tells Mark Smulian, she’s still keeping a keen eye on the money, as the agency strives to protect communities and businesses as well as people and plants

Registered pharmacies will be allowed to sell straws to people who need them for medical purposes after concern from disability rights groups

International development committee says a major shift in aid spending is needed to match the "existential threat" of climate change

Deadline is achievable but requires a concerted push, including government backing for carbon capture and storage technologies, committee says

Committee report says legislation fails to ensure the Office for Environmental Protection will be truly independent

Report details seismic Whitehall shifts, two years after Theresa May triggered Article 50

 

Environment secretary also reveals rising number of secondments from Natural England

Devolved administration perm sec requests oversight from Michael Gove's proposed Office for Environmental Protection

Committees endorse government's choice to lead environmental protection agency but tell Defra to "learn lessons" from recruitment round

Defra’s Clare Moriarty and DfT’s Bernadette Kelly update MPs on Brexit staffing plans for frontline departments

Public Accounts Committee demands clarity on how Whole of Government Accounts will present EU exit spending

Cross-departmental plan intends to cut the societal cost of pollution by £5.3bn annually by 2030

Committee also calls on government to embed UN sustainable development goals in departmental plans

The COO must have the "drive and vision to lead transformation across a diverse and dispersed group of organisations", the job ad says

Cabinet Office reports 2% reduction in floorspace and £750m generated from site disposals

Strategy aims to standardise household recycling and introduce weeky food waste collections