Councillors in Northern Ireland are becoming increasingly concerned that pubs are not taking the smoking ban seriously and will not be prepared in time. The issue was raised by Derry City Council c...
From 20 February 2007 new provisions came into force to crack down on those who intentionally obstruct emergency workers trying to carry out their work. The Emergency Workers (O...
A report backed by the major environmental groups has suggested that the green movement needs to re-brand itself because the majority of people are put off by its "sackcloth and ashes" image. While...
EC Regulation 1907/2006, on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) has finally been published, and will come into force on 1 June 2...
Coastguards have now confirmed that some 200 tonnes of oil have leaked from a fuel tank on the stricken cargo ship MSC Napoli, which is beached off the Devon coast. The ship has also lost around 20...
Scottish Water has been fined £10,000 after admitting discharging sewage into a burn. The utility company pleaded guilty at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on 16 January, to allowing waste to enter the b...
A Berkshire man and his company have been prosecuted this month for running an illegal waste dump that was so large it required a global positioning satellite to calculate its size. Cecil Wiggins a...
The Environment Agency have this month begun to formally approve the first batch of producer compliance schemes under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulatio...
Figures published this month have shown that the UK is on track to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to almost double its target set at Kyoto. The figures, which are the final figures for 2005,...
Figures from the Freedom of Information Act 2000 released recently have revealed that the Water Service in Northern Ireland has caused more than 1,500 pollution incidents between 2000 and 2005. Thi...
In other water news this month, Northern Ireland's water and sewerage framework is set to be modernised, following the publication of the Water and Sewerage Service (Northern Ireland) Order
A major environmental clean-up is currently under way in South Armagh, where the contents of an illegal landfill site are being sent back across the border to the Republic where it originated. A fl...
A leading environmental pressure group has given a mixed reaction to leaked plans for a major shake-up in the way Northern Ireland is governed. Details were revealed by Friends of the Earth (FoE) t...
A further 25,000 Belfast households are to be included in a kerbside recycling scheme. The city council service, which is being delivered by the charity Bryson House, aims to make recycling more co...
It has been announced this month that guidance relating to the new Contruction (Design and Management) Regulations, which was planned to be available now, will not be released until mid February. T...
