The Foyle Food Group Ltd, haulage contractor Ronald Baxter and farmer James Feeney have been fined a total of £10,000 plus costs, for a series of waste offences. The charges, which relate to vario...
Following on from our story last month on the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) campaign "sign up to sensible risks", which aims to combat the growing number of myths that a...
Tougher penalties for health and safety offences are being proposed in the Health and Safety (Offences) Bill.
The Labour MP who introduced the Bill, Keith Hill, said his aim was to, "Punish...
The Scottish Coal Company has been fined £400,000 after two workers were killed when their car was crushed by a 100-tonne dump truck. The incident happened at the Pennyvennie open-cast mine in Eas...
Two construction firms have been fined £38,000 after three workers narrowly escaped being crushed by a 35-tonne crane when it toppled over at a building construction site. The driver, who has not...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is set to unveil a new strategy for workplace health and safety in December, at the same time as calls are growing for a major overhaul...
An investigation is currently underway to establish the cause of a fire at a factory in Antrim.
The blaze started at lunchtime on Monday 22 September at the Camden Group Factory at the Cauls...
MEPs in the European Parliament have this month voted to make car manufacturers play a much greater role in tackling climate change, and rejected car industry attempts to we...
Councils in England have been warned they face multi-million pound fines if they miss EU targets for reducing the amount of waste they send to landfills. In a report by the Audit Commission, they...
Coal-fired power stations must not be built unless they can capture and store carbon dioxide, the Environment Agency has warned. This means that plants like the one propose...
Two new guidance documents have been published this month, relating to both packaging waste and environmental permitting.
The Environment Agency has issued guidance o...
A new supermarket in Devon is claiming to have slashed its carbon dioxide emissions by 40%, compared to other similar stores. Sainsbury's new flagship green store opened at Dartmouth in August, ai...
Northern Ireland Water (NIW) has been fined over sewage pollution incidents on a tributary of Belfast's River Lagan. The company was ordered to pay £2,000 plus costs after...
A Belfast skip hire company has been fined a total of £17,000 after pleading guilty to breaches of waste management legislation. The Department of the Environment for Northern...
The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a "hysterical pseudo-religion." In an article in the News Letter, Mr Wilson said h...
