Sentences with phrase «now environment secretary»

When asked by Sky's Adam Boulton whether he thought it was his «biggest mistake» to think he had a chance of winning the Tory leadership contest, given there was more support for the now Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom, he said: «It was a mistake wasn't it.»

She is now environment secretary.

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Environment secretary David Miliband said the 0.1 per cent drop over the year meant Britain was now emitting 15.3 per cent fewer emissions than in 1990, which is already in excess of the Kyoto protocol target of 12.5 per cent by 2012.

Now resistance to more cuts is much more deeply engrained and the chances are at least one of the so - called «national union of ministers» - including Hammond, home secretary Theresa May and environment secretary Owen Paterson - will be prepared to take their struggle to the next level.

The new environment secretary - now in place following the prime minister's electoral hara kiri over early summer - has made his first big announcement.

«The new Bill, once signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari will help to make Nigeria's business environment as competitive as its counterparts around the world; allow business owners to now register their businesses in a faster and more efficient way — using technology; removes all the unnecessary regulatory provisions — such as the requirement for «annual general meetings» and «company secretaries»; and reduces the minimum share capital for all companies and start - ups in Nigeria — which will encourage more investments and create new jobs.»

People need to begin preparing for the effects of climate change now, the environment secretary has warned.

But the tide has been turning in Westminster, with Johnson now referring to the environment secretary as «Gover» and Sky News presenter Adam Boulton among the pundits talking up Gove's chances.

Here's another one: Theresa Villiers going to Northern Ireland displaces Owen Paterson, who is now going to be the next environment, food and rural affairs secretary.

Ms Abbott said: «The Home Secretary will forgive me if I wonder about his words claiming to be abandoning the hostile environment title now.

If that's not enough, Britain now has an environment secretary who wants to bring back fox hunting.

Ms Thewliss said: «There is a litany of callous incompetence in this department and it is a problem of deliberate policy: cruel hostile environment policy by the former home secretary now Prime Minister and continued unabated by the current Home Secretarsecretary now Prime Minister and continued unabated by the current Home SecretarySecretary.»

Argument over Thorp, the reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria, is expected to move from Whitehall to the courts now that John Gummer, Britain's environment secretary, has given his blessing for the plant to open.

COAST now trusts that this evidence will be used to inform future government fisheries and marine environmental policy, as was promised by the now Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Environment, when the reserve was being set up.»

«The weight of evidence now shows the risks neonicotinoids pose to our environment, particularly to the bees and other pollinators which play such a key part in our # 100bn food industry, is greater than previously understood,» UK environment secretary Michael Gove told the Guardian.

Since the first wind farm went online in Oklahoma in 2003, the state is now home to 6,600 MW of installed wind power, according to Michael Teague, Oklahoma secretary of Energy and Environment.

«Single - use plastics are a scourge on our seas and lethal to our precious environment and wildlife so it is vital we act now,» Environment Secretary Michaelenvironment and wildlife so it is vital we act now,» Environment Secretary MichaelEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove said.

Now the BBC reports that UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove — who previously mulled steps like a tax on single use plastics — is dropping strong hints that plastic drinking straws might get banned from the country entirely.

Darren Grimes, far left, posing for a photograph with Michael Gove, a leading Vote Leave campaigner who is now Britain's environment secretary, at the campaign's headquarters in February 2016.