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Shadow Environment Minister Barry Gardiner says government needs to take an evidence-based approach to improving air quality

Latest Red Tape Challenge makes no mention of plans to review recently introduced corporate reporting rules

Government set to reduce environmental legislation by 80 per cent in volume following controversial Red Tape Challenge

New Public Health England figures raise fresh concerns over EU's "woefully inadequate" laws to prevent fine particulates PM 2.5

Defra predicts some parts of UK will experience top-of-the-scale pollution levels as a result of dust blown in from the Sahara

Environment secretary held high-level meeting at Cuadrilla's request with Environment Agency over regulation dispute

UK Statistics Authority backs Commons library's assessment that funding has been cut by £247m in real terms

Commission kicks off long-awaited legal proceedings over UK's failure to comply with air quality rules

Protections for parts of Somerset, Kent and Devon worth millions of pounds were planned but not delivered

But agency confirms redundancy programme will recommence once floods have subsided