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
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...
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...
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...
MPs in the House of Commons have backed a campaign to establish a legal duty on employers to train staff in mental health first aid.
The motion called for the Health and Safety (First-...
New provisions come into force on 28 March 2019 which place new prohibitions on the use of traps or snares.
The Humane Trapping Standards Regulations SI 2019/22 add...
Companies in the UK are being urged to disclose how many of their workers have a disability or a mental health condition in a drive for greater transparency.
The Department for Work and Pen...
Package delivery firm Tuffnells Parcels Express has been fined after one of its drivers received fatal crush injuries when he became trapped between a lorry tractor and a trailer in the West M...
Associated British Ports, DFDS Seaways PLC and ICTS (UK) Ltd have been fined after a security guard was fatally injured when he was struck by an articulated vehicle.
The security guard was...
The director of Nuneaton-based Abel (UK) has found himself with a 10-month prison sentence over the sale of a plant protection product and a paint stripper which contained banned substances.
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