Air management

The UK has 'systematically and persistently' broken air pollution law for over a decade, the EU's top court has ruled

Large polluting firms should be hit with bigger fines based on a percentage of their revenues, Environment Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd has said

A temporary green watchdog to assess government progress against environmental goals will be established in July and will set out the permanent Office for Environmental Protection’s strategy and enforcement policy, the government has announced

Natural capital prices should be considered in planning permission decisions, household waste should be taxed and genetic modifications encouraged in farming, the author of the Treasury’s economic review of biodiversity has told MPs

Volkswagen is being investigated for a second time over alleged NOx emissions cheating, this time in its Porsche and Audi vehicles

The chief secretary to the Treasury, a district council, a local town councillor and an activist are taking on the Environment Agency over a buried landfill. James Fair reports

The government has made big speeches about improving the environment, but is there a ‘gap between rhetoric and reality’? James Fair reports

Now that the UK has fully left the EU, is the government seeking to roll back regulation in a bid to stimulate the economy? Yes. Will that inevitably undermine environmental protections? Not necessarily, reports Adam Branson

Despite concerted effort, the culprits for some pollution incidents are never tracked down. Here are six pollution mysteries that remain unsolved by regulators

The department responsible for leading the way on the environment is not meeting its own green targets. Will its performance embarrass the government in the year it hosts the global climate summit? asks David Burrows