The ministers of environment and agriculture will have to go if they are caught lying about investigations they are currently subject to, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has suggested on Monday evening after meeting with the president.
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Lithuania wants to increase the share of "green" contracts in the government's public procurement deals.
The Lithuanian government announced on Monday that it would scrap 1,290 positions in government agencies from April of next year.
During its first year of activities, the Centre for Information Gathering and Management at the State Environmental Protection Agency (VAAT) of Lithuania, established back in autumn of 2014, received over 11,000 reports on violations of environmental protection requirements, Lithuania's Ministry of ...
Statistics Lithuania has released its annual publication Natural Resources and Environmental Protection for 2014.
This year, Lithuania has been listed among three countries in the region that are most favourable to business in terms of the simplicity of procedures for issuing documents that permit construction.
Lithuania's Ministry of Environment will submit the requirements via the European Commission with a view to ensuring that no genetically modified (GM) crops are grown in Lithuania. This ban will be in force throughout the territory of the country, the ministry reports.
A meeting of the ministers of environment of the Baltic Council of Ministers is starting near Lake Plateliai in western Lithuania on Monday.
At least 25 of Lithuania's 60 municipalities have restricted entry into forests amid fire hazard, the Environment Ministry said on Thursday.
The Ministry of Environment would like to raise taxes for amber extraction in Lithuania. It has proposed a 44-fold increase in taxes for a kilogramme of amber pieces larger than 40 millimetres.
Lithuania’s minister of environment admits being increasingly sceptical about a new tender for exploration of shale resources, saying that no one may be interested in searching for gas in Lithuania amid low prices of crude and gas in the market.
Lithuania's Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas turned to the Prosecutor General's Office asking to launch a pre-trial investigation into how the search and rescue operation of the aircraft An-2 and its crew was carried out.
Officers of the Special Investigation Service (STT) carried out a search and seizure at Lithuania's Ministry of Environment on Wednesday. They took computers from the Public Information Project Management Division.
It is estimated that over 10,000 people visited the Lithuania's Pavilion at the universal exposition EXPO 2015 in Milan, Italy, over a period of several days, Lithuania's Ministry of Environment said.
The Seimas Committee on Rural Affairs has addressed the Government asking to ban cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in Lithuania and thus implement the European Parliament's and the European Council's directive on GMOs.
Lithuanian authorities’ decision to postpone a new shale gas exploration and production tender makes sense, says Jaroslav Neverovič, former energy minister and now energy expert, adding that the key task now is to put the respective legal base in order.
A new tender for exploration and extraction of shale resources in the west of Lithuania will not be launched at this stage, Environment Minister has said.
Lithuania's Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas says the country should not speed up the international shale gas exploration tender.
Lithuania supports the proposal of the European Commission revised by Latvia, which is presiding over the EU Council, to establish the market stability reserve for the EU greenhouse gas emission allowances trading system, Lithuania's Ministry of Environment reports.
Lithuania is approaching the target established in the waste management plan to recycle or reuse at least 45 percent of municipal waste.
