A family in Stoke-on-Trent has been told that they would need to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds to adjust the height of the roof of the house they live in or they would face demolition after...
A new set of "super turbines" planned to be built on the Isle of Lewis has been met with outrage from the residents of the island.
EDF Energy, a French company's renewables&n...
A new report has stated that more than 6 000 shale gas wells would be needed to replace half of the UK's gas imports over a 15 year period.
The fracking industry in the UK has argued that a...
115 homes in west Oxfordshire have been halted by an inspector due to potential harm to the setting of a conservation area nearby and possible disruption to occupants from a neighbouring footb...
Over 40 leading UK businesses have signed up to the newly launched UK Plastics Pact and pledged to eradicate single-use plastics in their packaging.
The move stems from concerns over t...
The UK has broken it's own record for the length of time it's energy mix has gone coal free, with three days of the fossil fuel being made redundant.
The news comes after the UK set the rec...
On 23 April 2018 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched its annual Research Call. They were seeking proposals from the research community to help identify s...
More than 60 organisations, including councils, professional bodies, trade associations, charities, developers and designers, are calling on the Government to reinstate a reference to garden city p...
A glazing firm has been sentenced at Sheffield Magistrates' Court, after a worker fell from a ladder fracturing his lower leg.
The Court heard that the window installer, working for H....
Wolverhampton truck dealership, ATE Truck and Trailer Sales, has had a "manifestly excessive" fine of £475,000 over the fatality of a non-employee working at its yard reduced to £2...
At the start of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit, the UK Government announced an end to the sale of plastic straws, drink stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton buds. Theresa May also calle...
A planning appeal regarding a proposed treehouse in Huddersfield has been dismissed by an inspector, following an appeal on the basis of written representations.
The site in q...
It has been reported that the UK is this year planning to formally ask the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) to explore the potential for the tightening of emission reductio...
Sir David Attenborough's "Blue Planet II" brought the issue of plastic waste in the seas to a mass audience, and ever since the series aired in late 2017, the issue has been at the forefront of env...
Royal Mail was handed a record fine of £1.6m over an incident from 12 December 2014, where the company's yard marshal was struck by a 7.5 tonne lorry in Hounslow, Middlesex.
The...
