Michael Gove

Government consults on possible changes to vehicle excise duty aimed at incentivising van drivers to switch to lower emission vehicles

Why would anyone want regulatory enforcement mechanisms to be weakened, unless they expected to break the law?

The government's plans for a new environmental watchdog are to be welcomed, but they urgently need strengthening

Government launches consultation on independent green regulatory body and confirms plans to publish Environmental Principles and Governance Bill this autumn

Coalition of 13 UK green groups welcomes 'tentative' progress on plastics, agriculture, and chemicals, but warns of ongoing uncertainty over enforcement of post-Brexit environmental laws

Both Defra and the Department for International Trade have no clear plan and limited time to prepare for Brexit, report by Parliament's Public Accounts Committee argues

Department at the heart of major post-Brexit environmental policy challenges has hired 1,150 new staff members

Government suffers damaging defeat in Lords over Withdrawal Bill amendments

Green Alliance's Shaun Spiers argues Theresa May needs to face down the Ministers blocking progress on a Green Brexit

UK waterways are at particularly high risk from 'zombiefication' of UK environment policy post Brexit, according to new report