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TV presenters, bloggers, influencers, and endurance swimmers named as new champions for year-long drive to raise environmental awareness

As fresh statistics confirm UK remains well short of recycling targets, latest flurry of consultations aims to flesh out plans to overhaul UK waste and recycling regime

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan increases diesel scrappage scheme funding, as calls grow for national programme to take most polluting cars off the streets

Letter to Environment Secretary Michael Gove calls for pause on green policy consultations in view of Brexit planning chaos

New report from Policy Connect calls for 'bold national plastics plan' to deliver step-change in UK approach to plastics recycling

UK businesses which produce or trade products containing harmful gases will need to register online in event of no-deal

New analysis by UK100 green cities network shows 17.9 million NHS patients in England are registered at GP practices that exceed WHO guidelines

Dieter Helm says withdrawal from common agricultural policy could safeguard natural world

Cross-party MPs are backing an early day motion calling for a complete ban on plastic waste exports to the developing world

'Substantive action is now very urgent' if government is to meet natural environment pledge, declares independent advisory body