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Thérèse Coffey to lead on flooding, air quality, waste, and biodiversity, while Lord Gardiner appointed to oversee climate change adaptation efforts

Shoppers are expected to take home six billion fewer plastic bags this year, early government data reveals

Environmental Audit Committee letter calls for government to maintain existing level of environmental protection "as a minimum"

WWF's Bernadette Fischler explores the urgent challenges new ministers have to address if the UK is to honour recent international environmental commitments

Emily Lydgate of the University of Sussex argues leaving the Common Agricultural Policy presents a big opportunity, but also comes with daunting challenges

Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and opposition MPs call on government to deliver promised 25-year plan for nature or risk damaging businesses and communities

Senior environmental and agricultural figures cite lack of top-level experience, track record and policy approach as fears

Dan Byles argues that faced with a public health emergency it is time for a new Clean Air Commission capable of recognising the technologies that can improve our air quality

Nick Hurd, Margot James and Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe will join new BEIS ministry headed by Greg Clark

The demise of the Department of Energy and Climate Change will not derail the UK's green economy, but it still sends all the wrong messages