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...
London's Royal Opera House lost a landmark case brought against them by their employee, a viola player who sustained a life-changing hearing injury after an incident during a rehearsal in 2012...
A decision regarding the single farm payment scheme (SPS) has been quashed in the case of Stody Estate Limited v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs v National Farmers' U...
A company that was refused planning permission for one of the tallest wind farms in Ireland has been unsuccessful in its application for judicial review of the decision of An Bord Pleanála....
The Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey has stated that £36 million will be given to communities across England to help make improvements to flood protection, after promises in...
