George Eustice

Ministers are facing fresh calls to delay new rules to end the sale of off grid oil boilers, prompting warnings from green policy experts that government is failing to do enough to support the UK's heat pump roll out

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss seek to burnish green policy credentials as Tory leadership contest edges towards final fortnight – but beyond the rhetoric, how much more have we learned?

Decision to join Sustainable Productivity Growth Coalition comes in wake of UK government's much-criticised new National Food Strategy

Proposals come as water companies admit to discharging raw sewage more than 372,000 times into England’s rivers, estuaries, and seas last year

National Audit Office says Defra lay down unrealistic timeline for key element of the UK's net zero strategy

Defra says new Local Nature Recovery and Landscape Recovery schemes will work in conjunction with incoming Sustainable Farming Incentive

Environmental groups warn measures farming incentive plans unveiled today fall far short of delivering the ‘nature-positive’ agriculture sector promised by government

Defra confirms it will consult on banning plastic plates and cutlery, as it works towards goal of preventing all avoidable plastic waste by 2042

Programmes bringing together UK science and developing nations will aim to help enable marine habitat recovery