The Government is expected to put forward a consultation to expand the 5p charge for plastic bags to include small businesses.
There is currently an exemption that allows retailers with few...
Friends of the Earth (FoE) have made a complaint to the United Nations claiming that the Government's EU Withdrawal Bill breaches the Aarhus Convention.
The Aar...
Michael Gove has suggested that farmers could get subsidies for turning fields back into wildflower meadows, after Brexit.
Around 97% of the UK's wildflower meadows have been destroyed...
The sustainable development commission and Iceni Projects, have launched an online scorecard system which enables planners to assess the sustainability of proposed developments.
A scorecard...
The UK Government has set October 2025 as the date by which all UK coal power stations will be forced to close, unless the plants are fitted with carbon capture technology.
Currently the UK...
The Government have given its support to the creation of a 'Northern Forest' between Liverpool and Hull, which if completed would see the planting of 50 million trees in England.
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The interim report from Dame Judith Hackitt's review of building legislation and fire safety has called for a "thorough overhaul of the regulatory system".
This would include integrati...
According to statistics from the National Grid, the UK saw its greenest year on record in 2017, with more of the country's power coming from clean and renewable sources than any other year.
The group Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) have claimed that brownfield land registers are failing to record small plots of land that could be used to deliver an extra 188,734 homes across...
An All Party Parliamentary Group has launched an inquiry into working at height which seeks to look at the number of serious injuries and fatalities that occur as a result of falls from h...
The store chain Poundstretcher has received a fine of £1 million after three different local authorities brought prosecutions against the chain in relation to a total of 24...
On 1 January 2018 the Chinese Government brought into force a ban on imports of plastic waste. On average the UK was sending up to 500,000 tonnes of plastic waste to China every year for recycling,...
New Guidance for Pollution Prevention (GPP4) provides information on the appropriate public or private treatment and disposal of wastewater where there is no connection to t...
It has been calculated that Irish householders throw out an average of €700 worth of food each year, and in response, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is...
A Christmas toy has failed health and safety tests, after it arrived into the UK at Heathrow Airport.
The toy in question was one of 96 of Santa's little helpers, imported from India....
