South Armagh waste company Transco Waste Limited, and its former director Mr Vivian Devlin, have been fined a total of £6,000 plus £72 court costs at Newry Magistrates Court for unauthorised waste...

OM Tyre Recycling Limited have this month been fined £7,500, in addition to a 12 month conditional discharge, plus £1,764 costs after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing at Newry Crown Court on 2...

Peak Construction (London) Ltd has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £4,629 in costs after pleading guilty to breaching the Work at Height Regulations SI 2005/735 and th...

A company has been fined £15,000 and ordered to pay £3,000 in costs for breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, after a worker fell and slid seven...

Guy Fawkes night is a real blast from the past. The smoke from bonfires is reminiscent of times when our homes were heated by wood and coal, while the smoke from fireworks also contains tiny inhala...

Mike Barry, head of sustainable business at UK retailer Marks & Spencer, has accused the coalition Government of creating uncertainty on green measures for business.

He said that recent pol...

Alderbrook School in Solihul has been fined £3,500 and ordered to pay costs of £5,000 after pleading guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 for fail...

Tree growers, politicians, scientists and landowners were meeting this week to discuss a strategy to control ash dieback; the deadly fungal disease which is threatening to kill 80 million ash trees...

A garden nursery based in Norfolk is the third company to be charged with corporate manslaughter due to the death of an employee in July 2010.

The incident occurred at Belmont Nursery in Te...

Yorkshire and the North East of England have, in previous years, enjoyed the fact that 100% of its bathing waters met the mandatory requirements of Directive 2006/7/EC, on t...

The Environment Agency announced in December 2011 that it had established a task force which was designed to crack down on illegal waste sites in England and Wales. And with...

Northern Ireland Enterprise Minister, Arlene Foster, has announced a scheme that will aim to address the increase in fatalities currently affecting the farming industry.

Supported by the Ul...

Gallaher Ltd have been fined £150,000 plus costs at Antrim Crown Court, after previously pleading guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Order (Northern Ireland) SI 1...

A new body has been set up by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to advise councils on whether or not land earmarked for building is contaminated,...

A study undertaken by British scientists has revealed that certain pesticides can have a devastating effect on bumblebees.

Different colonies of bumblebees were exposed to the pesticides ne...