This year saw the publication of Directive 2010/31/EC, on the energy performance of buildings, which further reduces energy consumption in the building s...
This year saw the publication of Directive 2010/31/EC, on the energy performance of buildings, which further reduces energy consumption in the building s...
The self-proclaimed “greenest Government ever” has this month delivered some of the most vicious spending cuts ever to the environment. The Department for Environment, Food & Ru...
A Burnley firm, Equestrian Surfaces Ltd, has been fined £16,000 after failing to comply with an improvement notice (breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974</...
Defra have launched a consultation aimed at assisting two important energy production processing areas. Amendments will be made to the Environmental Permitting (England and...
Defra has launched the second stage of its consultation on the transposition of the revised Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC, which aims to addre...
Aberdeen-based company, Leiths Scotland Limited, has been ordered to pay £96,000 after an employee was fatally injured while working beneath a mechanical digger. The specialist quarry operati...
A Devon distribution company has been fined £200,000 plus £16,993 costs after a series of safety breaches caused the death of a Cornish vineyard owner.
The incident happened in...
MEPs and Member States have reached an agreement on the Industrial Emissions Directive, which will recast seven existing Directives relating to industrial emissions into a s...
Northern Ireland is still some way behind other parts of the UK, with households recycling less than 30% of waste.
New figures published this month show little improvement on last year’s, wi...
Climate change campaigners yesterday welcomed UN plans to amend the way changes to the Kyoto Protocol are made, in an effort to salvage negotiations on a new international deal. Under the plans, co...
A biscuit company has been fined £10,000 after a factory worker’s fingers were sliced off in a flapjack machine.
McVitie’s manufacturer United Biscuits (UK) Ltd was prosec...
Electrical retailer Comet Group plc has been fined £75,000 following the death of a contractor who fell through a roof light at its Wrexham store. Paul Alker was working for a roofing contrac...
Northern Ireland’s rivers are being checked for “gender bending” chemicals that could threaten the future of fish populations. Environment Minister Edwin Poots has revealed that 85 river sites are...
MEPs have backed rules that set new working hour limits for long-distance lorry drivers. Controversially, however, the 48-hour week limit will apply to both salaried and self-employed drivers.
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