The government must attract £600 million from the private sector to fund its commitment to protect 300,000 properties from floods, a group of MPs have warned....
Both food retailers and the government must work to encourage sustainable food consumption and cut down on waste if the UK is to have a sustainable...
A committee of MPs has warned that the UK could fail to meet the EU target of recycling 50% of household waste by 2020, unless the...
The UK needs to produce more food with fewer resources and reassure the public on the safety of genetically modified (GM) foods if it wants to...
The government must increase spending on flood defences if a repeat of the floods that devastated many parts of the UK last winter is to be...
In the space of four days, the chairs of both the environment and energy committees, Anne McIntosh and Tim Yeo, have been deselected as members of...
Buying food from local sources will help retailers and consumers avoid scandals akin to the horsemeat contamination of British food products in 2013, the chair of...
The Environment Agency has warned of further flood risks after the latest in a series of heavy storms shook the UK, crumbling ancient coastlines into the...
MPs have demanded to know how budget cuts to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are going to affect its ability to do...
The Environment Agency has said that flooding cost the UK £600m in 2012, with floods occurring one in every five days. The figures say that the cost...
The government is not doing enough for communities in the countryside, according to a committee of MPs. In its latest publication, the House of Commons environment...
UK and Irish authorities have failed to prosecute those responsible for “organised fraud in the meat supply chain” in the wake of the horsemeat scandal, MPs...