A company based in Kent has been ordered to pay more than £180,000 in fines and costs after a worker was killed by dangerous lifting equipment on a tipper lorry.
The fatal accident occurred...
The traditional red telephone box is not only a structure that has become synonymous with the British image, but it is becoming largely redundant.
As a result, those places with a red telep...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has published a green paper on biodiversity offsetting. The idea behind offsetting is that if someone plans a...
Zero Waste Week 2013 is upon us!
From 2 to 8 September, Zero Waste Week invites and challenges you to reduce landfill waste, and this year the theme is "use it up". This event aims to encou...
We are excited to announce that we will be exhibiting at the Big Eco Show, at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, on 17 October 2013.
The event is the region's third dedicated Big Eco Show,...
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has revoked an energy-from-waste (EfW) plant's PPC permit to operate, following persistent breaches in pollution requiremen...
An new app for Android and iPhone smartphones, which was developed by the charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) and funded by the Environment Agency, has been launched and gi...
A Suffolk textile company has been sentenced for serious safety failings, after a worker suffered three years of ill-health following his exposure to chemicals.
The worker was employed at G...
A £50 million transformation of a controversial landfill site could create hundreds of jobs as part of a new business park.
Sunderland City Council's planning and highways committee have gi...
An investigation carried out by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that a Sunderland-based firm had been operating for nearly a year without compulsory insurance th...
Teesside appear to be leading the way in health and safety excellence after two companies from the region have been honoured for achieving high standards.
Hartlepool-based Gus Robinson Deve...
Deemed as the new Candy Crush, Fraxinus is a free game invented by scientists and computer game experts to help discover the genes which are most likely to exhibit the most resistance to ash diebac...
Mr Kevin Higgins of Cookstown, has been made the subject of a £16,068.36 Confiscation Order, at Dungannon Crown Court.
The Confiscation Order, under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, was give...
As part of a settlement between a family in Pennsylvania and an oil and gas company, two young children have been banned from ever talking about fracking or the Marcellus Shale, a leading producer...
A wife-carrying competition at this year's Faringdon Folly Fest has been cancelled because organisers didn't get health and safety permission in time.
In the unusual "sport", husbands carry...
