The Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008 has now come into force, bringing in a number of key changes to existing legislation. It increases penalties and provides courts w...
Theme parks and fairgrounds must make sure that all staff are properly trained and supervised, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has insisted this month. The warning f...
Belfast City Council has admitted failing to ensure the safety of a man who died at the Dargan Road rubbish dump over two years ago. The council's director of legal services was at Belfast Crown C...
A builder has been left in a critical condition after the collapse of a two storey house on Hill Street in Ballymena, where associated builder's scaffolding also collapsed. A spokesman for the
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has called for a change in the law in order to make it an offence to be in possession of poisons used to illegally kill wildlife. This comes aft...
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...
