Local authorities in Newcastle, Melton and Bracknell Forest are facing a backlash by residents over the introduction of garden waste collection charges.
From 2 April,...
The Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (DoE NI) has opened a consultation on new legislation that will see a 5p charge introduced for single use carrier bags...
An Aberdeenshire farmer has been fined £9,000 after pleading guilty to an offence under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 of illegally managing and disposing of controll...
Construction, which is known to be one of the most dangerous industries in the UK, is showing a slight improvement in safety, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has revea...
In a move that would otherwise look like an April Fool's joke, a village in the North West of France has come up with a novel way of cutting their household organic waste . . . by feeding it to chi...
Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots has launched a new Waste Industry Safety and Health Forum for Northern Ireland (WISH NI).
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (<...
A Cornish company has been prosecuted after using unqualified staff to screen the health of workers from dozens of other organisations.
Over a period of four years, Audio Medical Services Lt...
Thousands of families who lost loved ones after they were exposed to asbestos may be able to claim insurance because of a recent ruling by the UK Supreme Court. They have ruled that insurers who of...
A formal application for a £250 million biomass power station in Northumberland has been submitted to the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), despite strong opposition...
The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) could potentially be replaced by an "alternative environmental tax" if it can't be simplified, Chancellor George Osborne announced this week.
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An opinion poll has this week revealed that just 2% of the UK public believe they live under the "greenest Government ever."
The pledge was made by Prime Minister David Cameron when taking...
Nestlé UK has been fined £180,000 for the failure to implement basic safety measures which led to the death of one of its workers in 2008.
Nazar Hussain, 55, was killed inside a depalletiser...
A hosepipe ban has been imposed on parts of Southern England as water levels still remain low. At the end of February, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman hosted a drought summit called in respo...
Permitted development rights in England are being extended to include the installation, alteration or replacement of microgeneration equipment on non-domestic buildings. The Town and Country Planni...
Member States' failure to implement environmental legislation is costing the EU around €50bn each year in health and environmental clean-up costs, the European Commission st...
