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...
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...
