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.

Food reduction specialist Winnow Solutions claims that up to £75 million could be saved on public food expenses and reinvested in public services following the latest government cuts.

George Osborne's Summer Budget removal of a Climate Change Levy exemption for renewable electricity sources will cost the anaerobic digestion industry £11m a year, says the ADBA.

Afzal Majid, Director of plastic bottle recycling company Euro Closed Loop Recycling, has warned that the company is ‘on the brink of closure’, just weeks after it was bought.

The current Director General at the Rail Executive in the Department for Transport, Clare Moriarty, will replace Bronwyn Hill as Permanent Secretary of Defra later this summer.

Viridor/Grundon’s Lakeside incineration plant in Slough would need to be ‘removed and replaced’ if a third runway is built at Heathrow Airport, says the Airports Commission.

A group of councils has written an open letter to central government calling for the standardisation of reporting of process losses from composting and mechanical biological treatment facilities.