The Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have this month announced that a single environmental permit will be introduced under the Environmental Per...
A compromise deal for a new international climate change agenda was recently agreed at the UN summit in Bali. Ministers from around 180 countries agreed an agenda for the agreement, which will rep...
A new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK has been given formal backing by the Government. Business Secretary John Hutton told MPs they would provide a, "Safe and affordable way of secu...
The Environment Agency has celebrated a 60% fall in the amount of hazardous waste going to landfill, with further new enforcement policies on the horizon. Recent waste prov...
Scotland's environmental watchdog has just published a consultation on their five year climate change strategy. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has identi...
Supermarket giant ASDA has been fined £225,000 and ordered to pay £42,000 costs after admitting health and safety breaches over the death of a customer who was killed at its store in Cardiff Bay. T...
A Port Talbot company, Vizor Tempered Glass, has been fined £50,000 and ordered to pay costs of £11,171, after a worker fell into a skip of glass. The glassmaker pleaded guilty to breaching the
A developer and a contractor from North London have been ordered to pay £275,000 after a Polish construction worker was left permanently disabled after a concrete slab fell on him. The incident to...
A firm have been ordered to pay a total of £35,504 after an unsafe floor collapsed and trapped 21 employers - during a health and safety meeting! Nobody was seriously hurt, but two workers suffere...
A village pantomime troupe has been forced to rewrite their script to comply with health and safety rules, which have led to police registering two plastic cutlasses and a toy gun. Captain Hook ha...
The year 2007 finally saw the introduction of some controversial and hugely anticipated legislation. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations (WEEE) SI 2006/328...
In a stark pre-Christmas message, Green MEP Caroline Lucas warned that your Christmas dinner probably travelled around 30,000 miles this festive period before ending up on your plate. It is entire...
The people of Belfast were urged to give the planet a lift this Christmas by redoubling their recycling efforts. Belfast City Council says its latest figures shows the recycling rate for 2007/08 i...
The year 2007 saw the introduction of some controversial and hugely anticipated legislation. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations SI 2007/320, came into forc...
A mobile Santa's grotto in Ceredigion has come to a halt after 30 years because of health and safety concerns. Santa had toured Lampeter and the surrounding villages on the back of a trailer since...
