Councils in England have been warned they face multi-million pound fines if they miss EU targets for reducing the amount of waste they send to landfills. In a report by the Audit Commission, they...
Coal-fired power stations must not be built unless they can capture and store carbon dioxide, the Environment Agency has warned. This means that plants like the one propose...
Two new guidance documents have been published this month, relating to both packaging waste and environmental permitting.
The Environment Agency has issued guidance o...
A new supermarket in Devon is claiming to have slashed its carbon dioxide emissions by 40%, compared to other similar stores. Sainsbury's new flagship green store opened at Dartmouth in August, ai...
Northern Ireland Water (NIW) has been fined over sewage pollution incidents on a tributary of Belfast's River Lagan. The company was ordered to pay £2,000 plus costs after...
A Belfast skip hire company has been fined a total of £17,000 after pleading guilty to breaches of waste management legislation. The Department of the Environment for Northern...
The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a "hysterical pseudo-religion." In an article in the News Letter, Mr Wilson said h...
The Government has committed the UK to a greenhouse gas emissions cut of 80% on 1990 levels by 2050 in a bid to tackle climate change.
Climate Change and Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband said t...
Green groups have welcomed a Government reshuffle that created a department for energy and climate change. The department, headed by Ed Miliband, is charged with establishi...
The coffee chain, Starbucks, has angered environmental groups, after it was revealed that it had a policy of keeping a tap running non-stop at all its 10,000 outlets worldwide, wasting 23.4 million...
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) have this month revealed the action it has taken to tackle high risk pollution threats on the Mallusk Industrial Estate. Work...
Northern Ireland's renewable electricity consumption has grown by 60% since 2005. Speaking at the Irish Wind Energy Association's (IWEA) Autumn Conference in Belfast, Energy Minister Arlene Foster...
Executives and managers could face two year jail terms for health and safety breaches under legislation just passed by Parliament. The Health and Safety Offences Act 2008 r...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have revealed that some 4,000 people a year in the UK are dying from the effects of asbestos.
Although a quarter of the victims...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have warned that accident numbers may increase over the course of the year.
New preliminary statistics show that in the period,...
