
The final Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) performance league table has been published by the Environment Agency. The league table ranks just over 2,000 organisations in or...

A Scottish whisky manufacturer has been fined £40,000 after safety breaches forced workers to run for their lives from a blazing warehouse.
The incident happened in June 2011 when two worke...

Italian architecture firm Stefano Boeri Architetti have designed two green buildings in Milan - literally. Their "Bosco Verticale", meaning vertical forest, consists of two residential towers of 11...

Farmer Gerard Connon, of Crumlin, has been convicted under the Water (Northern Ireland) Order SI 1999/662 for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.
On 12 Janua...

After Alex Attwood granted planning permission for the construction of a £100m golf resort and hotel near the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim in February 2012, the National Trust pursued a judici...

Two hundred places are on offer for farmers across Northern Ireland to attend a free farm safety workshop next month.
The workshop is organised by the Health and Safety...

A firm behind a hydro power scheme designed to produce electricity for 600 homes has been fined £4,000 for failing to prevent contractors from polluting the River Lyon and significantly damaging th...

After several discussions, postponements and objections, the pilot badger culls planned in Gloucestershire and West Somerset are set to be given the go-ahead later this year after final licence con...

On 13 March 2013, there will be a free environmental legislation workshop organised by MAS North East and delivered by Cedrec!
All SME Manufacturers in England are welcome to attend the wor...

A group of West Cornwall hauliers and the director of a skip hire company have been ordered to pay nearly £100,000 in fines and costs for illegally tipping thousands of tonnes of waste at a farm ne...

Biffa Waste Services Ltd has this week been fined £90,000, with costs of £26,949, after admitting to a host of pollution charges.
The waste company, which runs the Houghton landfill waste m...

A Wearside engineering firm has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £2,000 costs for endangering workers by allowing them to use machinery on which vital safety devices had been disabled.

With Muse due to perform at the BRIT awards this month, fans may be expecting the usual explosive act from them involving pyrotechnics. Indeed, the band had planned an all-guns-blazing performance...

A consultation has been published, which aims to gather opinions on the potential designation of Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) in English inshore, and English and Welsh offshore waters.
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A fairground owner has landed in a heap of trouble after failing to take notice of warnings by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to fit an additional safety barrier on o...