Morrison carves up environment and energy, praises Taylor for waving big stick

Prime minister Scott Morrison has announced dramatic changes to the federal bureaucracy, with the Department of the Environment and Energy to be abolished, and energy and climate change branches set to be absorbed by the resources department.

PM Scott Morrison.

Morrison announced the formation of a recombined energy and resources department, creating a new Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, although there was no change in ministerial positions, with the PM voicing his “full confidence” in the embattled Angus Taylor, the minister for energy and emissions reductions.

The environment portfolio will be merged into the agriculture department, with the creation of a new Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.

The changes see the environment and energy portfolios once again split up into separate departments.

Read the story from RenewEconomy by Michael Mazengarb - “Morrison carves up environment and energy, praises Taylor for waving big stick.”