The owner of a Wigan-based skip company found guilty of illegally dumping and burning waste, has been given a 26 week prison sentence, suspended for two years.
Nigel Isherwood, owner of Ish...
Buckingham Palace has found itself embroiled in a furious row with foreign broadcasters over plans to plunge the building into darkness at at time when most of the world will be tuned in for live c...
A dirty dozen of non-native animals and plants threatening Britain's rivers and canals have been named.
British Waterways said all 12 species were released after being bought as pets or orn...
An Oldham company has been fined a total of £13,979 this month after it ignored two formal warnings, putting its workers' lives in danger from poorly maintained and dangerous electrics. Townfield M...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced that from 6 April 2012 the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations SI 1...
Following the recent lower threshold for air conditioning inspections, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) has called for their mandatory lodgement. The new threshold i...
Northern Ireland Environment Minister Alex Attwood has welcomed figures which show that household and municipal waste collected by district councils between July and September 2011 fell by almost 5...
Following agreement by MEPs and the European Parliament, the EU Council of Ministers has formally approved the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) <...
On the first REACH registration deadline of 30 November 2010, 24,675 registration dossiers had been successfully submitted for 4,300 substances including nearly 3,400 phase-...
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...
