The Government has announced that subsidies for onshore wind farms will stop a year earlier than planned, on 1 April 2016. These subsidies are funded through the Renewables Obligation, which, itsel...
Double yellow lines in Upgate in Louth will have to be repainted after they were found to be too wide and too bright! The street on which the new lines were painted is in a conservation area, and s...
The new Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations SI 2015/51 came into force on 6 April this year, but their scope still remains unclear.
The Regulation...
Forty one years on from the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, the UK has one of the best health and safety records in the world.
That recog...
Love it or loath it, most of our environmental and safety legislation is driven by Europe.
The Conservatives' election manifesto agreed to hold a referendum by the end of 2017 on wheth...
This past weekend (6-7 June) in the UK has seen highly windy conditions, coupled with sunshine, leading to a huge contribution of renewable energy to the energy mix.
At around 2pm on Saturd...
Charles J Marshall (Aberdeen) Limited has been fined £6,600 after pleading guilty to breaching the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations SI 1998/2306 at Aberdeen S...
According to a new report from the London School of Economics, greenhouse gas emissions from China could begin to drop within the next ten yeas, five years earlier than expected.
At the end...
In some of the more positive news doing the rounds about Tesco, the supermarket giant is in the process of launching a scheme that will see tonnes of surplus food being donated to charities.
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Nestle UK and Ireland's Fawdon-based factory has achieved Zero Waste to Landfill by diverting waste to anaerobic digestion (AD).
The confectioner opened the on-site AD plant in 2014, a...
The Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Mythbuster panel have uncovered a bad egg in a local pub.
When they requested that a fried egg was replaced with scrambl...
A South Yorkshire metal recycling company, C F Booth Ltd, has been fined after injuries to a worker in December 2013.
25-year-old Ryan Jackson had his arm broken in three places, a cracked...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have issued fines to KML (Properties) Ltd. for unsafe work at height practices from employees.
Whilst on a site visit to the co...
An outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in the North East of England has led to health warning issued to those living in the area of the supposed source, a South Tyneside factory, Faltec Ltd.
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Reports of risks to England's top wildlife sites from pollution, invasive species and inappropriate grazing.
The claims came in a publication as part of Natural England's project...
