As part of the Great North Rail Project, the Government is developing plans for the UK's first digital intercity railway in the North. Major upgrades are being developed for the TransPennine r...
EasyJet has formed a partnership with the US firm Wright Electric, currently in the process of developing a battery-propelled aircraft for flights under two hours. This would enable the UK carrier...
A claim for judicial review of a planned urban extension to Canterbury on air quality grounds has been dismissed in the case of R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Communities &a...
A new Parks Action Group has been launched by the Parks and Green Spaces Minister, Marcus Jones, in order to help England's parks and green spaces meet the needs of communities, both now and i...
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a Consultation for a new segregated cycle superhighway that is intended to bring safer cycling to west London. This forms a key part of the Mayor'...
A chief scientific adviser to the Government's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said that the assumption by regulators around the world tha...
Five of the biggest oil firms in the world, including Chevron and BP, are currently being sued by the American seaside cities Oakland and San Francisco. This suing is for Big Oil to pay for the cos...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched a new occupational awareness campaign at their first annual conference on 18 September.
"Go Home Healthy" is aimed at...
A major acid leak in Hull has caused a "vapour cloud" over residential areas, sparking concern.
The leak stemmed from a tank containing 580 tonnes of hydrochloric acid at the King George do...
On 10 February 2015, 19-year-old Ben Pallier-Singleton died after the fork lift truck (FLT) he was driving down a sloping roadway at night time overturned at his employer's site in Chinley, Derbysh...
Viridor, a UK-wide recycling, renewable energy and waste management company, have been working closely with the University of Sheffield's robotics team for two years. Within this technological...
Illegal waste carriers are looking to be reduced, from the combined effort of the Driver Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) and the Environment Agency, all over England. After...
The Environmental Audit Committee plans to relaunch its predecessor's inquiry into coffee cups and plastic bottles, which was brought to an end before it could report d...
A farmer has been fined £112,197 in Newport Magistrates Court after illegally felling around two hundred beech trees that belonged to an ancient hedgerow at Pen y Fan farm, Manmoel, and were worth...
A roofing contractor has been given an eight-month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to complete 200 hours of community service for safety breaches after workers were left at risk...
