A report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows the EU is more than halfway to its target of cutting emissions by 20% from 1990 levels by 2020. The report reveals that emissions across the...
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has revealed that 62 people have died on Northern Ireland farms in the last 10 years.
Of those fatal accidents, 70% involved moving vehicles or livestock h...
A freight company based in Leeds has been fined £250,000, plus £100,000 costs, after a 59 year old worker was crushed to death by a case of glass. In Leeds Crown Court, Roadways Contain...
The UK has proposed a new twin-track climate deal this month to end the stalemate which has affected international talks on global warming since the failed Copenhagen climate conference last Decemb...
A County Antrim engineering firm has been fined £90,000 after the death of an employee.
FG Wilson pleaded guilty at Antrim Crown Court to two breaches of health and safety legislation...
The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations SI 2010/675 have now been published and will come into force on 6 April 2010. The new provisions will enable bus...
The Environment Agency has announced a further exemption from the handling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), which will be provided through the environmen...
This year the UK will have to collect four times the number of portable batteries it collected in 2009 for recycling, if it is to meet the first interim target set by the Waste Batteries and Accumu...
On 19 March 2010, Fermanagh District Council was fined a total of £45,000 after pleading guilty to two breaches of health and safety legislation.
The case against the council was brou...
Reports suggest the cost of working days lost to mental ill health in Northern Ireland could be as much as £125 million a year. Taking steps to tackle work related stress and promote mental well...
Ventilation problems at an electrical equipment recycling plant, which exposed workers to toxic mercury and lead, have led to fines of £145,000 for a recycling firm and its director.
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The theft of 2 million carbon allowances worth an estimated €30 million is now the fourth major attack on the European carbon emissions trading system, which has also been the subject of threats fr...
A recent prosecution by the Environment Agency has highlighted the seriousness being attached to breaches of legislation implementing the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equ...
A German-based construction company has been fined £226,000 after one of its workers was crushed to death in September 2008.
Czech national, Ondrej Hladik, 46, was contracted to work on the...
Environment Minister Edwin Poots has claimed that householders could save hundreds of pounds by taking small steps to reduce, reuse and recycle more.
This could involve simply making a shopp...
