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A major consultation on the Government's strategy for waste has suggested that a broader approach and a change of emphasis is needed. This could involve working more closely with businesses and ret...
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The European Commission have rejected plans by the UK to increase the level of pollution heavy industry can emit under the European Union trading scheme, which is a key element in the fight to redu...
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A major review was launched in February that could mark the end for the Department of the Environment in its current form. The study, which involves a Government panel of ex...
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The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) have issued a consultation document which contains proposals for new Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern I...
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The Drainage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) SR 2006/34 are due to come into force on 20 March 2006, and will replace the previous Regulatio...
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Omni-Pac (UK) Ltd was fined a total of £50,000 and ordered to pay costs of £86,000 in February, after pleading guilty to breaching sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at W...
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A specialist company from Oxfordshire who were responsible for transporting an emitting flask containing a radioactive isotope, has been fined £250,000 along with costs of £150,000, for breaching t...
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A commercial vehicle driver from Sheffield has received around £47,000 in an out of court settlement from his former employers Onyx UK, of Beighton, Yorkshire, as a result of losses from having to...
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Smoking will be outlawed in all pubs, restaurants, private clubs and workplaces across Britain by the summer of next year, after MPs voted overwhelmingly to extend a complete ban to England. Only p...
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have served two summonses on Corus UK Ltd, for breaches of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, followi...
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Speaking at a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) conference to highlight the new Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations
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The first meeting of a controversial alliance promoting economic growth and low carbon emissions opened last month in Sydney. The breakaway Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate...
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A leaked environment department paper which was due for publication in February has suggested that the Government is proposing to increase the number of incinerators across the country, resulting i...
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The Government have launched a three month public consultation on the future of Britain's energy policy, which critics fear could result in the construction of a new generation of nuclear power sta...
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The European Commission have issued proposals for a new Directive, which will require a quarter of all public sector heavy duty vehicles to use clean technology. In similar developments, an additio...