In the first Energy Efficiency League Table published by the Environment Agency, in which businesses and public sector bodies are ranked according to their efforts to improv...
Deferring water charges in Northern Ireland would cost around £265 million over the next three years, the Members of the Legislative Assembly have been told. The figures were given to a Stormont As...
The EU aims to coerce the US and the big emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil into signing up to a strategy to reduce greenhouse gases.
European leaders in the 27-nation bloc h...
The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations SI 2009/153 came into force in England on 1 March 2009, implementing Directive
Magnox Electric Ltd has been fined a total of £400,000 for over 14 years of radioactive leaks at the former Bradwell nuclear power station in Southminister, Essex. Sentence was passed at Chelmsfor...
The EU has presented proposals for an international agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which expires in 2012. The bloc is calling for an increase in global investment to 17...
Until recently raw sewage has been seen as a waste disposal problem rather than a power source, but Norway's capital city is proving that its citizens can contribute to the city's green credentials...
Northern Ireland's environment minister Sammy Wilson was censored this month by a committee at the Stormont Assembly. A vote of no confidence has been given to the minister, who has denied man-mad...
There has been a marked improvement in the compliance levels for sewage discharges in Northern Ireland, environment minister Sammy Wilson has revealed. He confirmed that a Nort...
Belfast City Council has been fined £40,000 after a man died at its Dargan Road landfill site, in the north of the city. Belfast Crown Court heard that Ashley Cunningham suffocated in September 20...
Public safety minister Michael McGimpsey this month launched a three month consultation on proposals to reform fire safety regulations in Northern Ireland. The regulations will give effect to vari...
Formal talks have begun in Brussels to determine whether the UK can retain its opt-out of the European Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC, which aims to e...
Employers in Denmark have begun paying compensation to women who have developed breast cancer after long spells working night shifts. Thirty-eight eight women have so far received payments via the...
Chocolate maker Thorntons has been fined a total of £16,548 this month, after an employee slipped while standing on a conveyor and plunged his hand into a hopper's rotating rollers. Ashley Taylor...
Air in public houses is cleaner and more people are trying to quit smoking, according to a review of Northern Ireland's smoke-free legislation. The review also found that compliance with the legis...
