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...
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...
Speaking at a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) conference to highlight the new Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations
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...
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...
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...
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...
Environment minister Jeff Rooker announced funding this month of £3 million for voluntary and community bodies dealing with waste management. 15 bodies have so far been offered funding from the new...
A wind farm in County Tyrone has finally been given the go-ahead after planning application was resubmitted. Wind Farm Developments, a joint project between B9 Energy Services and Renewable Energy...
A new Environment and Heritage Services (EHS) report on the quality of tap water in Northern Ireland for 2004 has detailed how our drinking water measures up favourably agai...
The Government are currently working on an Order which will delay the start date of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order SI 2005/1541, which is due to come into force o...
The owner of the Fascia Company have been fined a total of £4,020 after pleading guilty to offences with regard to the deposit of asbestos waste and a failure to provide information to the
This month as part of an initiative to reduce the number of slips and trips on construction sites, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are carrying out a nationwide "Watch...
The owner of A&E Buildings has been found guilty of the manslaughter of an employee who fell to his death from improvised equipment while constructing a steel-framed barn on a river in Kinver, Sout...
The Amtico Company Limited of Coventry, have been fined a total of £48,567 after pleading guilty to breaching section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. They...
