
Woodlands Homecare Ltd was sentenced last week for safety breaches after a worker was killed. Leeds Magistrates Court heard how on the 23 July 2012, the worker was pushing a trolley when he was str...

Steve Ogier from Guernsey applied for planning permission to build a single-storey eco-home on a plot of land approximately 150ft by 50ft. He was told that permission would be refused as the l...

Scottish Power has completed a deal with Drax Group to sell a portfolio of their assets which include gas, hydro and biomass stations, worth £702 million, leaving the company generating...

The plastics recycling industry is facing an investigation into suspected widespread abuse and fraud within the export system, and there are concerns that the world is about to close the door on UK...

The Environment Agency have stressed that waste crime is becoming a lot more organised, with the same amount of illegal sites opening as it closes.
The comments...

Following three years of research and a week of debate between scientists and Government officials, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a report on the impact of global warming...

Two of the UK's largest contractors have each been fined £1.4m for their role in an accident when a supervisor's boot was drawn into a rotating Archimedes screw.
Costain and Galliford...

The case of ClientEarth v European Commission, an application for appeal, has been allowed.
The appeal was made against a decision that refused ClientEarth access to specific documents...

19 conservation groups, including National Trust, have urged the UK MPs to rule out burying nuclear waste below national parks, after rumours have emerged that the Lake District could be an op...

The new £4.1 million Manchester Fuel Cell Innovation Centre (MFCIC) has been launched. The facility is dedicated to developing new sources of green, emission-free hydrogen and fuel cell energ...

19 countries including the UK, Canada and Denmark have joined a global coalition, the Carbon Neutrality Coalition, aimed at delivering net zero emissions by the second half of the century.
...
One Public Estate (OPE), a partnership between the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Office of Government Property within the Cabinet Office and the Local Government Associ...

An enforcement notice issued by New Forest National Park Authority has been quashed by an inspector on appeal as the development in question was deemed lawful.
The appeal was in relation to...

Wiltshire Council is being challenged in the High Court by the Trail Riders Fellowship over access to roads around Stonehenge.
The Trail Riders Fellowship, which campaigns for the conservat...

Pirelli Tyres Ltd have been fined £512,000 and ordered to pay costs of £5,820 after two employees had their arms broken by the same machine on two separate occasions.
The f...