B & W Waste Management Services Ltd has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay costs of £11,603.14 after pleading guilty to breaching the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmosphe...
The Environment Agency have teamed up with online giant eBay to tackle illegal car breakers who use the online platform to trade parts from unauthorised vehicle di...
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...
As part of its plans to reduce its carbon emissions rate to zero, Carlsberg has revealed plans to replace plastic can holders used in lager and beer multipacks with recyclable glue. The Danish brew...
Two students at Lancaster University who created a 'spinning' turbine, capable of capturing wind travelling in any direction, have won the prestigious James Dyson award. The turbine could potential...
Walney Extension, the world's biggest offshore wind farm, has opened in the Irish Sea. It spans an area the size of 20,000 football pitches and has a capacity of 659 megawatts, which is enough to p...
Thought Foundation’s evocative Thoughtful Plant 2 exhibition, which has been running since late June, has concluded with the Outstanding Arti...
The case of R. (on the application of Protreat Ltd) v Environment Agency, an application for judicial review, has been refused.
Protreat, the claimant, sought judicial review of a...
In 2017 the UK has seen a record high amount of onshore wind turbine installations, with a record of 2,611 MW onshore wind capacity added to the national grid, representing more than 20% of all ons...
The environmentalist group, Friends of the Earth has launched a legal challenge to the new National Planning Policy Framework recently published by the Government.
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According to statistics published by the Department for Transport (DfT), cycling use has remained at a similar level for the past 15 years, resulting in an average of 17 cyc...
In October 2015, England became the last country in the UK to introduce a legally binding charge for single-use plastic bags provided by companies of a certain size. The resulting 5p-a-bag charge h...
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in one of 19 Mayors from across the world who has committed to ensuring new buildings in their cities are in the net zero carbon by...
Found by a link on the Health and Safety Authority website, the BeSMART tool has been beneficial to thousands of business owners, managers and workers. A free, online a...
An Australian Physicist has been leading the push to pioneer a new type of low-cost solar energy, which he believes could make signing up for energy accounts as straightforward as a mobile plan.
