
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...

A man died after a splinter penetrated his eye socket and brain during the filming of an historical re-enactment.
The accident happened during a jousting event to be used in a Channel 4 arc...

A construction worker had a lucky escape when the forklift truck he was driving toppled over and crashed onto beach huts on Lyme Regis seafront.
The worker was unloading materials when the...

A brewery has been ordered to pay £27,481 in fines and costs after breaching fire safety legislation following a prosecution by the London Fire Brigade.
Punch Taverns PLC pleaded guilty to s...

Health and safety consultants are being invited to sign up to a new independent register, which is intended to become a new benchmark for standards in the profession.
The Occupational Safety...

Anglian Water has been fined £35,000 and ordered to pay full costs of over £7,000 after a sewage treatment works discharged sewage into the River Wid in Essex for more than three hours, killing hun...

The HSE and the HSE NI have co-operated to bring a safety alert to the attention of users of scissor lifts.
Users of certain types of scissor...

In January 2010 new legislation came into force that require retailers selling batteries to provide collection and recycling facilities for their eventual disposal. Some town halls, libraries and...

Key states have reached what they consider to be a "meaningful agreement" at the Copenhagen climate summit. Five nations, including China and the US, reached a deal on a number of issues such as a...

This year saw the coming into force of the Climate Change Act 2008 and the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, both of which help to establish a fram...

This year saw the coming into force of the Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008, which increased the number of situations in which people can be imprisoned for health and s...

Mariah Carey had vowed to make her public appearance at London's Westfield Shopping Centre an event to remember.
Unfortunately, the singer was left frustrated after her desire for 20 white...