A waste and recycling company from Poole, FDS Waste Services, has been convicted of corporate manslaughter and its director received a suspended prison sentence following the death of an employee w...
A care home provider has been fined £400k after an eight-year-old girl suffered catastrophic injuries when a tree fell on her.
Bupa Care Homes (CFHCare) Limited pleaded guilty after i...
A company has been fined £20,000 for a catalogue of health and safety failings at a building site in Alderley Edge, where work was taking place to convert an old bank into offices on London R...
The government has announced a new support package for energy-intensive industries such as chemicals, steel, metals, and paper.
More than 300 companies coping with the increasing cost of po...
A recent YouGov poll showed that staff well-being is falling down the list of priorities for employers, with statistics showing:
- only a third of employers see improving staff morale...
In January 2022 the Government launched a consultation on Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) regulations and implementation. It sought opinions from the public and professionals ab...
The UK Government is continuing to meet its commitment to phase out the use of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOAs) through measures restricting or prohibiting the man...
The UK Government is continuing to meet its commitment to phase out the use of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOAs) through measures restricting or prohibiting the man...
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) has published updated guidance -
New legally binding environmental targets published by the Government have come into force at the end of January 2023.
These targets come after three years of detailed consideration of scie...
The Welsh government have decided to make the environment the priority and scrapped the majority of road-building projects in Wales.
Following a year-long review, the "National Transport De...
A proposed solar farm in the Essex green belt has been approved following a planning appeal.
An application for the development was submitted in February 2021. Chelmsford City Council decid...
Avara Foods, a leading supplier of chicken to Tesco, is being urged by campaigners to pay reparations to help clean up the River Wye.
The River Wye, running from mid-Wales to the Severn est...
The new Scottish deposit return scheme (DRS) that aims to increase recycling rates and reduce fly-tipped waste for drink bottles could create an unlawful trade barrier with the rest of the UK, whic...
A new set of Regulations has been published which requires companies affected by the extended producer responsibility scheme (EPR) to collect data, and in the case of large companies, report on the...
