Environment Secretary insists 'no loss of environmental outcomes' from ditching water pollution requirements for housebuilders, but OEP maintains proposals amount to 'clear regression'
Government responds to criticism from the Office of Environmental Protection over failure to complete post-implementation reviews of green laws
Office for Environmental Protection warns Defra, BEIS, and other departments have not been completing legal-required reviews to assess effectiveness of green laws
Office for Environmental Protection delivers damning verdict on a litany of government failings, as it demands urgent action to halt the decline of England's natural world
National Trust, RSPB, and ZSL among coalition of groups backing complaint to the Office of Environmental Protection over government’s failure to set new set of legal green targets
Calls grow for a rethink of the controversial Retained EU Law Bill, amid concerns over threat to worker, consumer, and environmental protections
Government department publishes sobering assessment of lack progress to date against objectives of 25 Year Environment Plan
OEP warns several legally-binding nature restoration goals proposed by government 'lack sufficient urgency'
Long-awaited publication of government's environmental principles for policymaking triggers warnings from NGOs that green protections could now be watered down
Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns