Defra

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

Policy makers, green groups and businesses have their say on Theresa May's Whitehall changes and cabinet appointments

Former DECC minister moves to head up Defra, while Chris Grayling becomes transport secretary

Environment Minister's listening mode is welcome, but the waste and recycling sector wants to see an end to 'policy vacuum' sooner rather than later

Government is taking a 'reactive rather than proactive' approach to flooding, warns Environmental Audit Committee

Air pollution in a number of cities, including Glasgow, Leeds, Scunthorpe and Nottingham, is breaching international limits, new study shows

Plagued by a tough commodity market and uncertainty over EU membership, the UK's waste and recycling industry is seeking a fundamental change to its business model