Breedon Trading Ltd, have been fined for safety breaches following a fly rock projection during the use of explosives at a blast at Cwt-y-Bugail Quarry in North Wales.
On 15 January 2020, b...
Knowsley based company Securafence Ltd, who manufacture perimeter protection products, have been fined following repeat breaches of health and safety law.
Over a period of 18 months between...
The Countryside Charity, CPRE, has published a new report, Recycling our Land: State of Brownfield 2021 which sets out numerous recommendations for brownfield sites in England.
CPRE states...
A survey commissioned by the MCS Charitable Foundation, has found that most MPs (77%) approve of the idea to require all new builds to incorporate small-scale renewables, like solar PV and hea...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a new report which forecasts their predictions for future global renewable electricity capacity.
They believe that by the end of 2021 ther...
Think tank Localis have urged Michael Gove, the Housing and levelling-up secretary, to ban developers from building homes in high-risk flood areas.
A research report produced by Localis, Pl...
Chair of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), Lord Deben, has said that the current planning system is 'extremely ill-prepared for net zero'.
His comments came at the Town and Country Planni...
The UK Government has promised to invest £20 million a year to tidal stream electricity under the renewable energy auction scheme, the biggest investment in a generation into tidal power.
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An investigation undertaken by the BBC has found that there is a black market in hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) which are being smuggled into the UK from Eastern Europe.
HFCs are a type of fluor...
Thames Water Utilities Limited has been fined £4 million for discharging an estimated half a million litres of raw sewage into the Seacourt and Hinksey streams in Oxford across two days in Ju...
A contractor and security company have been fined following an incident where a security guard died after being found lying face down and hypothermic, in deep snow.
Ayr Sheriff Court heard...
On 13 November 2021, nearly 200 countries at the UN climate change conference found some common ground and concluded talks on the final version of the COP26 agreement. The night, however, was not w...
Safety advice that has left thousands of households unable to sell their homes after the Grenfell Tower fire will be withdrawn by Christmas, Michael Gove has announced.
The advice that has...
On 26 October, the Government announced that the Environment Bill will be further strengthened with an amendment to see a duty enshrined in law that ensures water companies...
The United Nations climate agency has published a draft "COP cover decision" which is the subject of negotiations between all the parties involved. The final version of the document will be issued...
