The Scottish Government has been urged to facilitate regional land-use plans to maximise the countryside's role in cutting carbon dioxide emissions.
The initiative w...
Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Scotland has called for an urgent debate about how planning departments are funded, after it found the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 could cost them up to £...
Volvo Group UK Limited has been fined after an employee was crushed at a depot by a truck, leading to serious injury.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that in June 2016, an employee of Volvo Gro...
A convicted waste criminal has had an additional nine years and four months added to his current seven and a half year fraud sentence. The defendant will now serve a total of 16 years.
The...
Scotland's Vacant and Derelict Land Taskforce has set out how it plans to help bring land back into productive use and prevent future sites from being abandoned.
The Taskforce, established...
The nationwide supermarket chain, Co-op, has urged local authorities to take action for a quicker roll-out of food waste collections and acceptance of compostable bags as part of the service.<...
A building company and its director have been fined for unsafe construction work around a domestic gas boiler that has resulted in a dangerous escape of gas.
Birmingham Magistrates' C...
On the 25 June 2019, at Nenagh Circuit Court, the Judge Tom Teehan imposed a fine of €300,000 on the Company Balfour Beatty CLG Limited for a single breach of legislat...
The British Government has made a private appeal to senior Coalition ministers to help develop a more "ambitious" climate policy, as a result of growing concern that Australia is not doing enough t...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their Industrial and Waste License Enforcement Report 2018 on 18 July 2019, and has found that ov...
Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced an investment of a further £600 million from the Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) to deliver 50,000 new homes across England.
The...
Holyrood in Edinburgh has restated its commitment to a landfill ban that is planned for 2021 - despite chances that it might be pushed back to 2025.
Claims by a spokesperson...
In a report published by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Ices), it has been revealed that the North Sea Cod Stocks have fallen to critical levels, a grave issue that will...
The Icelandic nation has held a funeral and presented a plaque to commemorate the once huge Okjokull glacier, now lost as a result of the climate change.
The nation has come toge...
South West Water has offered to pay £350,000 to the Westcountry Rivers Trust to help a Devon river recover from serious pollution that wiped out the local fish population.
The pa...
