Sentence examples for appointed environment from inspiring English sources

"After the 2013 election, Hunt was appointed environment minister under prime minister Tony Abbott.

Carlos Minc, the newly appointed environment minister, said the government would impound cattle grazing on illegally cleared pasture.

Downing Street said he had been appointed environment secretary, replacing Andrea Leadsom, who became the new leader of the Commons.

Photograph: Mark Baker/AP Peter Garrett, the former singer of Midnight Oil, was recently appointed environment minister in the new Australian government.

Matthew Pencharz, the London mayor's recently appointed environment adviser, told MPs on Wednesday that the city was largely compliant on PM10s and PM2.5s.

The recently appointed environment minister yesterday approved the sale of Shell's 45percentnt stake in the Mayo gas project to Nephin Energy.

Cameron has even appointed an environment secretary who does not believe in climate change.

The MP for Glasgow South was appointed shadow environment, food and rural affairs minister in May last year.

Although Blair appointed him environment minister after the Labour landslide of 1997, he was not expected to last long.

He said: "Many ecologists were very apprehensive when Michael Gove was appointed [as environment secretary] but his approach has been overwhelmingly positive and really quite visionary.

Cameron appointed as environment secretary Owen Patterson, a climate-change sceptic, the man who blamed the badgers for "moving the goal posts" when too few of them submitted to being shot by Tory farmers.