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...
The Government has committed the UK to a greenhouse gas emissions cut of 80% on 1990 levels by 2050 in a bid to tackle climate change.
Climate Change and Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband said t...
Green groups have welcomed a Government reshuffle that created a department for energy and climate change. The department, headed by Ed Miliband, is charged with establishi...
The coffee chain, Starbucks, has angered environmental groups, after it was revealed that it had a policy of keeping a tap running non-stop at all its 10,000 outlets worldwide, wasting 23.4 million...
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) have this month revealed the action it has taken to tackle high risk pollution threats on the Mallusk Industrial Estate. Work...
