Chemical giant Solvay Solutions UK Limited has been fined after a dangerous gas was released into the atmosphere from their Trinity Street site in Oldbury on 2 January 2009. This caused disruption...
Walter Heselwood Limited, a Sheffield based scrap metal recycling company, has been fined after safety failings led to the death of a worker at their recycling site.
Tony Johnson, 55,...
Grimsby has transitioned from a major fishing capital to the renewable capital of energy. The town generates more electricity from solar, wind, biomass and landfill gas than anywhere else in Englan...
An arrest warrant has been issued by a High Court judge for a farmer who failed to comply with an order to demolish his property.
Robert Fidler built a four-bedroomed home at Honeycrock Far...
The Government have confirmed that temporary rules which allow for the conversion of offices into homes are to be made permanent. They will also be extended to allow for office blocks to be demolis...
Nottingham, Bristol, Milton Keynes and London have been awarded a share of £40 million to promote the use of electric vehicles.
The four cities were named winners of the Go Ultra Low City S...
The decision to scrap a £1 billion prototype Carbon Capture Scheme (CCS) is to be investigated by the National Audit Office (NAO). The cancelled scheme is believed to have cost the taxpayer at leas...
A group of former high-ranking officials and current academics have written a letter to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Liz Truss, to warn that leaving the EU would...
A building products manufacturer, Stressline Limited, were fined £12,000 and ordered to pay costs of £2,121 after a worker suffered serious cement burns on his first day of work.
The 21-yea...
CP Plastics Limited, a Manchester waste plastic recycling firm, has been fined after an employee’s hand was severed in a granulator machine.
The 50-year-old employee, who has been deaf sinc...
In some saddening environmental news, it is estimated that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the sea than fish.
It is said that only 5% of plastics are recycled effectively, and one wa...
Clandon Park House in Surrey is to be partially rebuilt by the National Trust following a fire in April 2015 which reduced the Grade I listed building to a shell.
The 18th Century House was...
The organisers of the world famous Glastonbury festival have admitted to allowing human sewage to leak from a tank and pollute a nearby stream.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people f...
The Government have introduced their air quality plans which include commitments to create 'Clean Air Zones' in Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Derby and Southampton where air quality prob...
Ashley Coe, an agency worker on site for Pascon Limited, was part of a group of workers laying cables in a trench when he received an electric shock from an overhead power line.
British So...
