As part of its latest assessment of progress on climate change, the UN has reported that there is still a significant gap between the pledges made by governments to cut greenhouse gas emissions and...
At a joint conference in Dundalk between Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Ireland and RTPI Northern Ireland, planners in Northern Ireland and Ireland agreed to work together to create scenarios...
Savanna Rags International Limited, a clothing and textile recycling company, have been prosecuted following the death of a 76-year-old employee. The woman was fatally injured by a reversing delive...
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has introduced the anti-pollution T Charge to London today.
The charge sees a £10 levy aimed at older cars, mainly those registered prior to 2006. A free vehicl...
Scotland is officially home to the world's first floating wind farm.
Nicola Sturgeon formally opened the £210 million project, located off the coast of Peterhead, on 18 October. Standi...
A High Court Ruling has approved, in part, a judicial review into amendments to Civil Procedure Rules in February 2017 which essentially removed a cap on costs that a person has to pay if they lose...
A long-delayed blueprint for how the UK will hit its binding target of cutting emissions by 57% by 2032 has been published by Ministers. It includes a range of policies supporting everything from l...
Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council have set out proposals that aim to ban all non-electric vehicles from Oxford city centre from as soon as 2020. The ban would initially apply to ce...
According to a new study from the Cornish Plastic Pollution Coalition, dozens of UK wastewater treatment plants are releasing millions of tiny beads into seas around the UK, contributing to the pro...
A new partnership between Hubbub and compliance scheme Ecosurety is urging UK households to Bring Back Heavy Metal and recycle their batteries.
In 2016, only 44% of the UK’s used batteries...
Traffic examiners and police officers will soon start issuing fines of up to £300 for a single offence to bus and lorry drivers who have not rested properly, and consider rest patterns in the past...
The Scottish Government has announced that it does not support fracking, meaning that an effective ban has been placed on the practice in Scotland. A moratorium on the techn...
The fastest growing source of energy last year, worldwide, was solar power outstripping the growth of other forms of power generation for the first time.
The International Energy Agency (IE...
In a bid to tackle poor recycling rates for drinks containers and also to reduce the amount of plastic that harms the environment, Environment Secretary Michael Gove has announced that the governme...
The annual report of the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has shown that the workplace fatal injury rate in Ireland decreased from 2.4 to 2.1 per 100,000 workers between 2015 and 2016. The three-y...
