Two Nottinghamshire farming companies have been fined a total of £28,800 for causing pollution to a pond through the discharge of maize silage effluent from Sutton Grange farm in Sutton-cum-L...
Sanders Plant and Waste Management Ltd have been fined after an employee was fatally injured when he was struck by a reversing JCB loading shovel.
Newcastle upon Tyne Crown Court heard that...
The Government published this week the first report on the progress of the implementation of the landmark 25 Year Environment Plan. According to the report in the first year...
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Michael Gove, has invited organisations to apply for the second round of funding under the government scheme to reduce food waste...
The Local Government Association (LGA) is calling for tougher sentences for fly-tippers as the most recent analysis shows nobody in the last year was given the £50,000 or 12 months imprisonme...
Welsh housing minister Julie James has confirmed that work is already underway to create a new, separate planning inspectorate for Wales. At the moment, there is a single planning inspectorate for...
Back in 1882, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Tottenham Hotspur was founded, the Royal Courts of Justice were opened, and the Holborn Viaduct power station was built.
The power station be...
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has been fined after refurbishment work undertaken in an accommodation block at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital exposed employees and contractors to asbestos.
The Land and Property department of the Greater London Authority (GLA) was fined last week for serious failings in safety management, after an advertising hoarding collapsed onto a man in front of...
MPs have called on the UK and Welsh Governments to consider a range of low-carbon energy projects in north-west Wales following the suspension of work on the Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station.
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Scottish Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham has been giving details of Scotland's proposed bottle return scheme to MSPs, moving the battle against plastic a little further towards a better e...
It is a strange situation when two different environmental factors fighting against each other sandwich local and national planning policy. However, that is seemingly what happened in a recent plan...
A new report from the International Energy Association (IEA) has found after nearly two years of strong annual progression, global renewable capacity growth in 2018 remained at the same level as in...
Today the Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, announced a new Bill which will ban the use of wild animals in travelling circuses.
Some of the animals which currently perform in circuses in...
Last week Natural England published a new license to kill or take c...
