Karen Ellis, Chief Adviser on Economics and Development at WWF-UK has commented in the build up to tomorrow’s publication of the Environmental Audit Committee’s (EAC) report Sustainability...
Following yesterday’s court ruling against the Government there have been angry exchanges in parliament, with ministers under pressure to take urgent action on air pollution. Twenty seven MPs...
Clare Wenner, Head of Renewable Transport at the Renewable Energy Association, has reacted to the report from the Environmental Audit Committee on Sustainability in the Department for Transport with...
A report on Sustainability in the Department for Transport has today been published by the Commons Environmental Audit Committee. Reacting to the report’s findings, Alan Andrews, lawyer for...
The Environmental Audit Committee report on sustainability at the Department for Transport has been welcomed by Campaign for Better Transport and they have also said that they...
The Department for Transport must put in place a plan to phase out diesel says Friends of the Earth, as the Environmental Audit Committee today (1 September)...
Tackling the environmental impact of microplastics. Microbeads can be used in medicine for a range of treatments, but do we really need them in face wash...
Dr Jenifer Baxter, Head of Energy and Environment at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, responds to the National Audit Office briefing for the Environmental Audit Committee ...
Parliament’s green watchdog – the Environmental Audit Committee – has warned the Government that its proposed privatisation of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) must not go...
The government has rejected MPs’ calls for a public inquiry into the impacts of air pollution and a change in legislation to prevent schools and care...
The government has been forced to change plans on where fracking can occur across the UK after conceding to Labour’s calls to close 13 environmental loopholes...
A group of MPs have called for the UK’s fledgling fracking industry to be put on hold because the method is incompatible with climate change targets...
MPs have called for new schools, hospitals and care home to be built away from ‘air pollution hotspots’ after describing the UK’s air quality as a...
The Environmental Audit Committee has said the government has failed to tackle air pollution, protect biodiversity and prevent flooding, therefore earning a ‘red card’ on its...
The Environmental Audit Committee is urging the government to take decisive action in a number of areas to encourage and support a circular economy, which would...