The organisers of the Kendal Calling festival have been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £25,000 in costs at Carlisle Crown Court after admitting to breaching the Health and Saf...
Regular visitors to London's Victoria and Albert Museum will know what to expect from a visit, and a grindcore concert by the band Napalm Death is not one of the attractions that is likely to appea...
Paul Kinkead, Head of Environment and Protection at Michelin's truck tyre plant in Ballymena, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours list for services to environmental protection in Nort...
As of today (20 March), the Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) Regulations (Northern Ireland) SR 2010/412 apply to existing tanks less than 10 metres from any waterway or 50...
Recycling rates in the UK rose faster in the first decade of the millennium than any other country in Europe, according to official statistics published this week.
Although it started from...
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In a bid to put a spotlight on women's occupational cancer, protesters from the Hazards Campaign hung up their bras outside a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) conference to...
Energy Secretary Ed Davey has announced that planning consent has been granted to energy firm EDF to construct a new £14 billion nuclear power plant in Somerset. This is the first of a planned new...
An attempt to rescue a cargo ship which ran aground off the Northumberland coast on Saturday could be postponed because of weather conditions.
The 262ft vessel is currently caught on roc...
A ban on bee-killing pesticides has been postponed, as Member State experts failed to agree on a binding decision to end their use.
In January, the European Commission</...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a consultation on changes to the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations ...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is targeting young workers in the construction industry in South and East Yorkshire in order to alert them to the dangers of exposure t...
Labour-run Islington Council in North London has been heavily criticised for chopping down a £10,000 pear tree, because one local complained he was allergic to wasp stings.
Council workers...
Although climate change campaigners have always prioritised the need to effectively communicate the effects of climate change through carefully selected text, it is now thought that carefully selec...
The Sentencing Council for England and Wales, which gives guidance to the courts, has said that magistrates should impose bigger fines more frequently on those who are responsible for repeatedly du...
