Forum Brief: Waste management
Policy Consultation 22 May 2003
The government's waste management policy is in disarray according to a committee of MPs.
Forum Brief: Budget - Environment
Policy Consultation 9 April 2003
Gordon Brown has announced a range of environmental measures in his Budget.
Forum Brief: Energy white paper
Policy Consultation 3 April 2003
A report from the Commons science and technology committee has slammed the government's energy white paper for ducking tough decisions on renewable energy and greenhouse gases.
Forum Brief: Waste management
Policy Consultation 19 March 2003
Environment minister Michael Meacher sets out the government's position on waste management issues.
Forum Brief: Waste management
Policy Consultation 6 March 2003
Minister for the Environment, Michael Meacher MP, formally invited members of the ePolitix.com Forum to email in their views on waste management.
Forum Brief: Consumer culture
Policy Consultation 7 February 2003
Environment secretary Margaret Beckett has criticised the "old pattern" of "produce, use, discard" in Britain's consumer culture.
Forum Brief: Pre-Budget Report - Environment
Policy Consultation 28 November 2002
The landfill tax is to nearly treble over the next decade from £13 to £35 a tonne.
Forum Brief: Hazardous waste landfill sites
Policy Consultation 17 September 2002
The Environment Agency has announced the upgrading of 222 landfill sites across England and Wales to take hazardous waste.
Forum Brief: Earth Summit
Policy Consultation 6 September 2002
Although environment secretary Margaret Beckett claimed the overall outcome of the Earth Summit was "truly remarkable", environmental groups have criticised it as a missed opportunity.
Forum Brief: Waste Disposal Targets
Policy Consultation 4 September 2002
Tory MEPs last night slammed "damaging and unrealistic" new waste disposal targets.
Forum Brief: Government's environmental record
Policy Consultation 13 August 2002
Number 10 has issued a strong rebuttal of an interview given by the environment minister in which he complained about the low priority given to green issues by the government.
Forum Brief: Recycling charges
Policy Consultation 12 August 2002
The Environment Agency is said to back a Cabinet Office scheme to charge households who fail to do their bit for recycling, according to a report in today's Times.
Forum Brief: CSR - Environment sector response
Policy Consultation 16 July 2002
The spending review will provide an average of 2.7 per cent a year real growth in the resources of DEFRA and the Forestry Commission from 2002/03 to 2005/06, bringing the
Forum Brief: Waste charges
Policy Consultation 11 July 2002
Reports in today's press suggest that Downing Street is considering a radical plan to bill every household in England for the amount of rubbish they leave out for the dustman.
Forum Brief: Environment poll
Policy Consultation 19 June 2002
A MORI poll, commissioned by the New Opportunities Fund, has found the greatest threats to green spaces are from crime, vandalism and people's lack of concern, care or interest. Both
