Legislation

Brussels targets single-use plastics in an urgent clean-up plan that aims to make all packaging reusable or recyclable by 2030

Committee on Climate Change gives Clean Growth Strategy a mixed reception, welcoming change in tone towards climate action but warning pledges don't go far enough to meet legal targets

David Powell argues that just like the late, great Paul Daniels the government is using distraction techniques to divert attention from the trick that is being pulled

Green Alliance's Libby Peake resists the temptation to yell at the Today programme and instead explains how action to protect the environment benefits the economy

Action to combat unlicensed waste carriers to be taken after Environment Agency uncovers 850 illegal dumping sites in a year

Prime Minister Theresa May's speech to green leaders at the London Wetlands Centre - in full

Mayor Bill de Blasio: 'It's up to the fossil fuel companies whose greed put us in this position to shoulder the cost of making New York safer and more resilient'

A ban on the manufacture of 'rinse-off' products containing plastic microbeads takes effect from today

Calls for government to boost natural environment follow promises from Michael Gove that post-Brexit subsidy reforms will incentivise environmentally friendly farming

Legislation bars manufacture and import of all products containing microbeads