The National Audit Office (NAO) has said British taxpayers face a £24 billion bill for tax relief awarded to oil and gas companies removing hundreds of North Sea wells, rigs and pipelines.
A study undertaken by the London Green Belt Council has found developers are threatening London's green belt land, with five out of six local authorities planning to build on protected land.
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Bristol City Council in partnership with Plymouth and Devon Councils have been granted €1.9 million by the European Investment Bank and the European Commission for...
Met Office forecasts have predicted that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are set to soar through 2019.
Continued deforestation and burning of fossil fuels combined with El Niño-...
A London-based construction company was sentenced this month for safety breaches after a worker was killed.
In November 2015 an employee from Formation Construction Limited was using a conc...
Two companies have been sentenced this month following the death of a five-year-old girl who became trapped while using a lift at home in Weymouth.
The family moved into the property in 200...
Subsidies for coal, oil and gas are not falling despite EU pledges to tackle climate change.
The UK leads the EU in giving subsidies to fossil fuels according to a report from the
On 7 January 2019 the Environmental Protection (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England and Wales) Regulations SI 2018/1227 began to come into force.
They make various am...
A study published by the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has warned that box waste collections typically used by Councils for recycling waste could be causing long-term musculosk...
The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), the Civic Voice and the Bath Preservation Trust have raised concerns over the extension of permitted development rights.
Government proposa...
Hitachi have suspended work on a new nuclear development project at Wylfa Newydd in Anglesey over rising costs.
The company have been in discussions with the Government since June 2018 abou...
The Welsh Government has produced a Consultation as part of the Work...
Thames Water has been handed large fines over two sewage incidents that occurred in 2013 and 2015.
In October 2013 an underground sewer pipe in South East London became blocked with tr...
Mr Francis Anthony Heaton from Manchester was jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty to dumping 100 tonnes of pungent processed household waste on the site of the Kingfisher Special Schoo...
A challenge to the decision to grant a variation to an environmental permit has been dismissed in the case of R. (on the application of Friends of the Earth Limited) v The Environment Agency v...
