Lib Dems endorse a human right to a healthy natural environment
Party members have endorsed a new policy on nature
environment
Nearly everyone in the UK lives in areas with toxic air, shocking new data shows
New data shows that almost everyone in Europe lives in areas with toxic air pollution
Labour can block Tory attempts to scrap pollution rules – but will they?
The House of Lords has a chance to save environmental protections
Tory rhetoric on the climate crisis doesn’t survive contact with reality
The government’s Energy Bill falls well short of what’s needed
Zac Goldsmith resigns with damning letter condemning government ‘apathy’ on climate crisis
Rishi Sunak won’t enjoy reading this resignation letter
Government caved to wealthy landowner lobbying in U-turn on public path access
Thérèse Coffey gave landowners what they wanted, putting at risk public access to thousands of miles of historic paths
Wera Hobhouse MP: Not a single river in the UK is free from pollution and the Tories keeps muddying the waters
‘Protecting all of our rivers and streams is essential to prevent Britain from becoming an open sewer’
Sarah Olney MP: The government must approach the biodiversity emergency with the urgency it deserves
‘The protection of a biodiverse environment has been plagued by ill-management and the government’s failure to understand the tangible consequences of poor biodiversity’
Liz Truss’s £235m cut to Environment Agency ‘doubled sewage discharge’
The Labour Party says its analysis shows that since 2016, when Truss was in charge of Defra – raw sewage discharge more than doubled from 14.7 per overflow in 2016 to 29.3 in 2021.
Natalie Bennett: The Queen’s Speech was devoid of ideas on both the economy and environment
The emptiness of the government’s “programme”, a grab bag of philosophically incoherent and half-baked ideas, has been widely noted.