The new Environmental Audit Committee has launched its first two inquiries, which will focus on sustainable development and the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport.

The UK Green Investment Bank and investment company Equitix have announced a £14.6 million investment in a new Sheffield-based biomass plant.

The Department for Communities and Local Government has upheld its rejection of Veolia’s New Barnfield incinerator following High Courts’ reassessment ruling.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid has announced plans to cut £10 billion of ‘unnecessary’ regulation, including that for the waste sector, over the next five years.

Data measuring the input and output of material recovery facilities across England and Wales has been published for the first time today by WRAP.

Cabinet members of Oxfordshire County Council will vote next Tuesday (21 July) on a consultation that recommends closing a number of its household waste recycling centres.

The House of Commons formally appoints 10 MPs to serve on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee for the 2015 parliament, alongside Chairman Neil Parish.

Nine companies have received a share of £6-million funding from the Department of Energy & Climate Change to test heat network projects across the UK.

Community action group GlosVAIN has announced plans for a resource recovery centre to rival the county council’s controversial energy-from-waste plant.

MEPs have voted to back circular economy proposals including recycling rates, incineration and resource ‘passports’ as part of on-going European Commission plans.