In a pioneering move for a Government department in Northern Ireland, Environment Minister Alex Attwood has set up a partnership with the charity Crimestoppers to crack down on waste crime.
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Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman is hosting a drought summit which was called in response to the fact that groundwater levels in England are lower than levels seen in 1976, which was the hott...
The boss of a St Helens gas supply firm has been fined £22,500 after he and an employee suffered multiple burns in an explosion.
John Webster, director of North West Gases Ltd, had been atte...
A man in Chile is being held on suspicion of stealing five tonnes of ice from a glacier in Patagonia to sell as designer ice cubes for cocktails.
Local media reported that the police interce...
Many Welsh councils are apparently owed money from private developers who have failed to pay them under section 106 agreements of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
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China has banned all of its airlines from joining the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). The ban comes only weeks after the China Air Transport Association said its members disagre...
Morpeth in Northumberland was flooded in 2008 after the River Wansbeck breached its banks and engulfed almost 1,000 properties. Plans were drawn up to protect the town from such floods, but were st...
Harmondsworth barn in west London, a timber built grade I listed building, has been saved by the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England (English Heritage) f...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has produced the first report as part of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment. This report is the first in a...
Waste crime officers from the Environment Agency are appealing for information after dumped carrier bags have blighted part of Sunderland's coastline.
The plastic car...
A man in Chicago is recovering after he accidentally shot a 3.25 inch nail into the middle of his brain without noticing. Dante Autullo was building a shed and using the nail gun above his head whe...
The Environment Agency in the Midlands have accepted their first Enforcement Undertaking from a Derbyshire packaging firm.
An Enforcement Undertaking is a voluntary o...
A company which exports waste wood to Scandinavia has been required to introduce dust control measures after local residents and businesses began to complain of "soggy Weetabix" like material cover...
The controversial HS2 high-speed railway has been given permission to be constructed this week despite receiving strong opposition from several groups.
The high-speed railway, which will i...
More health and safety prosecutions will take place before an inquest, under changes designed to speed up work-related death cases.
Families of people killed in work may be able to turn to a...
