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...
Green activists have strongly criticised heads of state and government for failing to put concrete sums on the table to help developing countries combat climate change at their meeting this month....
The headquarters of the Whitehall department responsible for tackling climate change has been given a poor assessment by a Government energy efficiency inspector, it emerged this month. The
Northern Ireland's construction and demolition industry is being asked to help revise pollution prevention guidance.
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) is...
A Belfast skip company has been fined a total of £20,000 this month for breaches of waste management legislation. Sean McStravick, director of Colin Glen Contractors (also trading as CG Skips), of...
A Limavady businessman claims his workers were forced to move from their offices at the Aghanloo Industrial Estate, outside Limavady because of the unbearable smell of nearby hen manure.
San...
Important changes have been made to the management of gypsum waste. These changes aim to minimise the production of the odorous gas, hydrogen sulphide, at landfill.
The landfilling of gypsu...
The Government has formally pledged to cut global warming emissions by one third in just over a decade, making the UK the first country in the world to set legally binding targets.
The Budge...
The Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, has announced that any new generation of coal-fired power stations in the UK will have their carbon emissions partially captured by cutting-edg...
The EU's council of ministers this month adopted the final legal texts of the energy and climate change package of legislation negotiated by Member States in December last year. The new legislatio...
A company has become the first in the UK to be charged under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.
The Crown Prosecution Service have authorised...
